He was a big man, Guillaume, and he looked bigger still in his spattered armor. Guillaume the conqueror leaned on his mighty sword, hands crossed on its hilt, grinning down from his height upon the furious captive before him. When they came to a halt before the mailed figure on the dais, Joiry’s commander was breathing hard, and the voice that echoed hollowly under the helmet’s confines was hoarse with fury and despair. They picked their way between mounds of dead as they crossed the great hall toward the dais where the conqueror sat, and twice they slipped a little in the blood that spattered the flags. THEY brought in Joiry’s tall commander, struggling between two men-at-arms who tightly gripped the ropes which bound their captive’s mailed arms. It is the fifth Jirel story and is considered to be the eleventh in the Northwest Smith series.

In 1937, Moore and Kuttner collaborated on “Quest of the Starstone” which combined Moore’s signature characters, Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry.

Moore.” Moore met Henry Kuttner, also a science fiction writer, in 1936 when he wrote her a fan letter under the impression that “C. As a writer she most often used the pen name “ C. A fantastic and blood-curdling story of the treasure in Hellsgarde Castle, and the dead men who stood guard over it-Ĭatherine Lucille Moore (1911–1987), born in Indianapolis, Indiana, was one of the early great female writers of science fiction and fantasy.

Hellsgarde (1939) – Dead men guarded the treasure in Hellsgarde Castle-a tale of Jirel of Joiry. Quest Of The Starstone (1937) (written with Henry Kuttner) – Across the far-flung centuries Jirel, the red-headed warrior-maid of old France, meets Northwest Smith, valiant rover of the spaceways, in a strange and thrilling adventure The Dark Land (1936) – An amazing tale of a red-headed warrior maid, and a leprously white skull-faced woman, and a flame that was quenched Jirel Meets Magic (1935) – The story of a warrior maid and the tremendous adventure that awaited her beyond the castle window The Black God’s Kiss (1934) – A gripping story of a warrior maid who went down into a land of unthinkable evil in search of a strange weaponīlack God’s Shadow (1934) – Another fascinating story about Jirel of Joiry, who went down into a terrible place of darkness to release a human soul from torment Her adventures pit her against witches, sorcerers and supernatural beings, as well as much more easily dispatched men. Jirel is the proud, tough, beautiful, flame haired, warrior ruler of Joiry - located somewhere in medieval France about 1500. The complete tales of Jirel of Joiry, flame haired warrior maiden of medieval France.