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King's Justice: Kurval, #6
By Richard Blakemore and Cora Buhlert
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In the year of the forked serpent, Kurval came from beyond the sea, slew King Orkol and became King of Azakoria.
But Kurval's reign is not an easy one. The people of Azakoria despise him as an uncouth barbarian, the nobles plot against him and assassination attempts are a frequent occurrence.
One day, a hooded assassin tries to stab Kurval during an audience. Kurval is shocked, when the assassin is revealed to be a young woman, Nelaira, daughter of a minor noble. But why would a girl of nineteen throw away her life on a futile assassination attempt?
As Kurval investigates Nelaira's motives, he finds that he does not want to hang her. But he is king now and a king has to do his duty. Or does he?
The new sword and sorcery adventure by two-time Hugo finalist Cora Buhlert and her occasional alter ego, 1930s pulp writer Richard Blakemore. This is a romantic novelette of 9000 words or approx. 30 print pages in the Kurval sword and sorcery series, but may be read as a standalone. Includes an introduction and afterword.
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King's Justice - Richard Blakemore
Introduction
by Cora Buhlert
swordNowadays, pulp fiction writer Richard Blakemore (1900 — 1994) is best remembered for creating the Silencer, a masked vigilante in the vein of the Shadow or the Spider, during the hero pulp boom of the 1930s.
What sets the Silencer apart from the many similar characters that graced American newsstands during the Great Depression is that his exploits reached out beyond the pages of the pulps into the real world. For between 1933 and 1942, there are dozens of confirmed reports from people who claim to have encountered the Silencer in real life, fighting crime, protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty just like his pulp counterpart.
Who was the person who dressed up as the Silencer to fight crime? The most likely theory is that it was Blakemore himself. After all, Richard Blakemore was a skilled sportsman and veteran of World War I, who spent the 1920s travelling the world, so he would certainly have had the knowledge and the ability. And the police at the time did suspect Blakemore of being the Silencer. There are various records of searches and arrests and even a trial in 1936, where Blakemore was convicted of a murder supposedly committed by the Silencer. He was later acquitted, when the actual killer confessed.
However, there are also confirmed reports of Silencer sightings during the time when Richard Blakemore was definitely elsewhere. So was the Silencer really just a deranged pulp fan, as Blakemore himself claimed? Or — and this is probably the most likely theory — did more than one person wear the Silencer costume?
Blakemore himself, when asked if he was the Silencer, always gave the following answer, No, I’m not and have never been the Silencer. I’m just the man he chose to chronicle his adventures.
The Silencer vanished at the start of World War II, when whoever the person behind the mask really was, was likely drafted to fight overseas. The Silencer magazine held on until 1949, still written by Blakemore, though the Silencer himself did not reappear after World War II.
There was a brief wave of Silencer sightings in the late 1960s. These are likely the work of a fan, particular since the Silencer adventures were reprinted in paperback at the time. Though some also believe that the new Silencer was one of Richard Blakemore’s four children with his wife Constance Allen Blakemore. Like their father, the Blakemore children have always denied being the Silencer.
The mystery surrounding the Silencer has long overshadowed Richard Blakemore’s other works. For like most pulp writers, Blakemore was extremely prolific and wrote dozens of stories in a variety of genres for Jakob Levonsky’s pulp publishing empire. Richard Blakemore’s work spans the entire width of the pulps, from crime stories via westerns, war and adventure stories to romance and even to science fiction and fantasy. Indeed, the sheer amount of stories Richard Blakemore wrote during the 1930s refutes the theory that he was the Silencer, for when would he have found the time?
Of the many non-Silencer stories Richard Blakemore wrote, the most interesting are his forays into the genre now known as sword and sorcery.
Richard Blakemore was an acknowledged fan of Weird Tales and particularly admired the stories of Robert E. Howard and C.L. Moore. And so, when Jake Levonsky started up his own Weird Tales competitor called Tales of the Bizarre, Blakemore of course jumped at the chance to write for the magazine and created Thurvok, a warrior hero in the mould of Conan, Kull and Bran Mak Morn.
Thurvok first appeared in the story "The Valley
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