Reviews for Tarra Khash: Hrossak!

The average rating for Tarra Khash: Hrossak! based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-09-26 00:00:00 Shawn Kemp To begin with: This is kind of a wretched title -- just three (apparently) nonsense words strung together, with some odd punctuation. But if that doesn't put you off, you'll find here a book telling the adventures of a barbarian from Hrossa (hence: Hrossak) named Tarra Khash. The first Primal Land collection, House of Cthulhu, had a bit of a Clark Ashton Smith feel to it, at least structurally, in that it was a collection of largely unrelated tales from a primordial supercontinent, most of which did not end ... pleasantly ... for their protagonists. This book has a bit more of a, well, not Conan but maybe Thongor or Kothar feel to it -- it's a series of linked longish sword & sorcery stories following the adventures of the eponymous Tarra Khash from his initial imprisonment by, & escape from, an odious jewel merchant through various alarums and excursions that culminate in a fight with Forces of Ultimate (or near-ultimate) Darkness. Nothing ground-breaking, necessarily, but not an unpleasant way to spend an afternoon's reading.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-01-17 00:00:00 Scott Helm 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.