The Mighty Warriors

The Mighty Warrors

Cover of The Mighty Warriors
Author	edited by Robert M. Price
Cover artist	Bruce Timm
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Ulthar Press
Publication date	2018
Media type	Print (paperback) and ebook
Pages	239 pp.
ISBN	978-1-71899-913-8
Preceded by	The Mighty Swordsmen

The Mighty Warriors is an anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by Robert M. Price. It was first published in trade paperback and ebook by Ulthar Press in May 2018, and was a homage to the similar early sword and sorcery anthologies The Mighty Barbarians (1969) and The Mighty Swordsmen (1970) edited by Hans Stefan Santesson.

Summary

The book collects eleven sword and sorcery tales of protagonists and settings prominent in the genre, featuring Henry Kuttner's Elak of Atlantis, Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique, Lin Carter's Thongor, David C. Smith's Oron, Charles R. Saunders's Imaro, Richard L. Tierney's Simon of Gitta (based on the legendary Simon Magus), Milton J. Davis's Changa, Charles R. Rutledge's Karrn, and Ken Asamatu's Ikkyū, among others. Some are by the authors associated with the original works and others are pastisches by later writers.

Contents

• "Know, O Prince: An Introduction" (Robert M. Price)
• "Spawn of the Sea God" (Elak of Atlantis) (Adrian Cole)
• "The Corpse's Crusade" (Zothique) (Cody Goodfellow)
• "Thongor in the Valley of Demons" (Thongor) (Robert M. Price)
• "The Shadow of Dia-Sust" (Oron) (David C. Smith)
• "Amudu's Bargain" (Imaro) (Charles R. Saunders)
• "The Secret of Nephren-Ka" (Simon of Gitta) (Robert M. Price)
• "The Temple of Light" (Changa) (Milton J. Davis)
• "Kiss of the Succubus" (Karrn) (Charles R. Rutledge)
• "The Living Wind" (Ikkyū) (Ken Asamatsu)
• "The Last Temple of Balsoth" (Gondar) (Cliff Biggers)
• "Lono and the Pit of Punhaki " (Lono) (Paul R. McNamee)
• "Appendix One"
• "Appendix Two: An Adrian Cole Bibliography"
• "Appendix Three: Kharrn the Barbarian" (Charles R. Rutledge)