Harold Lamb passed on sixty years ago today. My time is very short tonight, but I feel that respects must be paid.

I wrote a couple of reviews of the Bison Books Lamb collections for The Cimmerian back in the day. I think they still hold up. I know Howard Andrew Jones was pleased with them and that means a lot.

My review of Swords from the West is here.

My review of Swords from the Desert is here.

My entry on Lamb for my ‘Forefathers of Sword-and-Sorcery’ series can be found here.

Here we are, sixty years after Harold was laid in his grave. S&S authors like David Drake, Howard Andrew Jones, Scott Oden and S.M. Stirling still sing his praises.

Rest in peace, Mr. Lamb.

Feel free to check out the cover gallery below.

Michael Wm. Kaluta’s never-used cover illo for Lamb’s classic novella, “The Making of the Morning Star”.

George W. Barr/Alicia Austin cover for the first third of Lamb’s classic Crusader novel.