Swords & Sorcery
| Swords & Sorcery: Action, magic, enchantment — eight novelettes by masters of heroic fantasy | |
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| Editor | L. Sprague de Camp |
| Illustrator | Virgil Finlay |
| Publisher | New York: Pyramid Books |
| Released | December 1963 |
| Format | Paperback |
| Pages | 186 |
| ISBN | None |
Swords & Sorcery is a collection of short stories of heroic fantasy.
The editor of the anthology, L. Sprague de Camp, sent a copy to Tolkien in 1963. Tolkien "found [the anthology] interesting but did not much like the stories in it".[1][2]
Contents
- L. Sprague de Camp: "Introduction: Heroic Fantasy"
- Poul Anderson: "The Valor of Cappen Varra"
- Lord Dunsany: "Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller"
- Robert E. Howard: "Shadows in the Moonlight"
- Henry Kuttner: "The Citadel of Darkness"
- Fritz Leiber: "When the Sea King's Away"
- H.P. Lovecraft: "The Doom that came to Sarnath"
- C.L. Moore: "Hellsgarde"
- Clark Ashton Smith:
From the back
Here are tales of heroes of old - brawny adventurers ready to storm the gates of Hell with their valor and ready blades for a purse of gold ... or a wench. And here are a legion of wizards, ghouls, demons - and worse - casting dire enchantments and summoning all the powers of darkness to their aid. ...
In this anthology of heroic fantasy, SPRAGUE DE CAMP has collected stories which resound with the clash of battle in the eerie night ... which reek the unholy smoke of the magician's cell ... which draw the reader into a strange, thrilling, weird world of SWORDS AND SORCERY
References
- ↑ L. Sprague de Camp, Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers, pp. 243-4
- ↑ Dale Nelson, "Howard, Robert E. (1906-36)", in J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia (Michael D.C. Drout, ed.), p. 287
