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1-Minute Book Review: Prisoner of the Horned Helm #shorts

8 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In a rapid, one‑minute video, the speaker delivers an enthusiastic endorsement of Frank Frazetta and James C. De Bonita’s novel Prisoner of the Horned Helm, the first book in the Death Dealer series. He characterises the work as classic, old‑school fantasy featuring familiar tropes such as a strong hero and a damsel in distress, and praises its writing and descriptive passages for being vivid and never dragging. The reviewer notes that the entire three‑book trilogy is hard to locate but worth the effort, and he likens the series to the works of David Gemmell, positioning it within that beloved era of fantasy. Overall, the review is a concise, high‑energy recommendation that the book is “double brilliant.”

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So, back again. 1-minute book review. Prisoner of the Horned Helm by Frank Frazetta and James C. The brilliant De Bonita. Boom! Bloody brilliant. Actually, I'd give that a double brilliant. It is old-school fantasy. Yeah, you know, big strong guy, damsel in distress. It's like fantasy in the— love this stuff. Writing is great. Description is great. Nothing drags. I just love it. I've got all 3 of them. Bloody hard to find, bloody worth the effort. And if you like fantasy, classic fantasy, David Gemmell, as we've touched on before, that whole ilk and genre, that whole era of writing, anything around the Death Dealer series is just absolutely brilliant. So there you go. Death Dealer, book 1, Prisoner of the Horned Realm. Solid. Double brilliant.