Flashing Swords #1 (1973)
Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Lin Carter
This very fine sword and sorcery collection contains 4 stories.
The Sadness of the Executioner by Fritz Lieber
(A Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Story)
Morreion by Jack Vance
(A tale of "The Dying Earth")
The Merman's Children by Poul Anderson
(A fantasy of the Vikings)
The Higher Heresies of Oolimar by Lin Carter
(An adventure of Amalric the Mangod)
I really liked the Jack Vance story. Morreion really was a moron, a clever play on words there. An infamous role-playing game stole the idea of IOUN stones from this story.
Bad form for the editor to include his own story. It is a very entertaining story, which is mitigation, I guess.
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