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Continuing Brian Lumley's fantastic, hair-raising horror-adventure series, Tarra Khash: Hrossak! reveals more about the Elder Gods and the warriors and wizards who serve and battle them.
British Fantasy Award-winner Lumley pays homage to Robert E. Howard's Conan in the six fantasy tales of his second Primal Land collection (after 2005's The House of Cthulhu). Barbarian Tarra Khash wanders the world of Theem'hdra, an island continent, where he more than holds his own against sorcerers, lamias and cutthroat thieves. In the opener, "Treasure of the Scarlet Scorpion," Tarra carries a stash of rubies from the scorpion god. From long exposure, Tarra is immune to the creature's sting; not so his doomed jailer, Nud Annoxin, when the god comes to call. In contrast to this baldly told tale is the poignant "Told in the Desert," in which an entire race faces a tragic end. These entertaining, unpretentious stories in the pulp tradition show Lumley at his relaxed best. (Apr.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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Scott Helm
reviewed Tarra Khash: Hrossak! on January 17, 2018
Tarra Khash: Hrossak!
My earl 2018 "Pulp-revisited-athon" continues!
Vol 1 of Lumley's Tales of the Primal Land was a clear homage (although definitely its own thing) to Clark Asgton Smith's Hyperborea and Zothique. Vol 2 is set in the same land, but is has more of an Arabian Nights meets Howard's Kull (definitely Kull, with its dreamy quality, not Conan). It is a novel
of interlinked short-stories following the titular character on a journey across the continent. Unlike the aforementioned Kull, Tarra Khash is not particularly introspective, and frankly a titch dense, which is played to comedic affect.
Overall, this was a really fun read, and as the Mythos doesn't intrude quite so heavily, the dreamy, heroic (as opposed to horrific) quality to the stories works far better here than it did in Lumley's other Cthuluhoid adventures, IMO.
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