![]() Jirel is a strong and complex character, the first in prose fantasy's long and honorable list of butt-kicking heroines (Marion Zimmer Bradley dedicated her first Sword and Sorceress anthology to "every girl who grew up wanting to be Jirel)," tough but not brutal, proud and hot-tempered, but possessing a gentle side, too. Originally published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in the late 1930s, Moore's five stories ("Black God's Kiss," "Black God's Shadow," "Jirel Meets Magic," "The Dark Land," and "Hellsgarde") featuring beautiful swordswoman Jirel, lady ruler of a feudal fiefdom in Dark Ages France, were as germinal in the development of sword-and-sorcery fantasy as the work of her contemporary, Robert E. ![]() ![]() 26, 2015: While skimming over the stories again, as part of adapting and expanding this review for another site, and with the benefit of a number of years of further reflection, I decided that this collection fully merits an additional star, raising it to five! ![]()
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