HEROES CARRY SWORDS. Pale women with fine blonde hair are chosen for a special fate. Ugly sub-humans, often dark-skinned, offer diabolical bargains or, in an indistinguishable horde, hang out until the good guys stab them to death. Evildoers crave power, and the good reliably shrink from it. That is classic fantasy in the popular imagination, […] The post A New View of the Fey Things: On “The Big Book of Classic Fantasy” appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'
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