![]() ![]() ![]() Unwilling to admit defeat, even to the last, Jirel girds herself for war and sneaks down to the bowels of her holdfast to its secret portal to Hell, seeking a weapon against Guillaume. Moore matches or even exceeds Howard in many ways (and that is very high praise from me), but Howard wrote an incredibly diverse body of stories, even just looking at the stories featuring a particular character.īlack God’s Kiss opens with Jirel defeated, Joiry taken, by the cruel Guillaume. The two collections give me a better appreciation of Robert E. More than fine, probably, in its original pulp magazine form, but it is very noticeable if you read the stories straight through. Each is spurred by one incandescently brilliant story and one great pulp character-here, Black God’s Kiss and the titular Jirel of Joiry-and feature vividly evocative prose and imagery, but both are stymied by the remaining stories being otherwise brilliant but simply too derivative of the first to form a truly great collection. Moore’s collected Jirel of Joiry stories suffer from the same problem as her Northwest Smith stories. ![]()
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