Swords and Sorcery - edited by L. Sprague De Camp - 1st printing 1st edition - cover by Virgil Finlay

TITLE: Swords and Sorcery: Stories of Heroic Fantasy

EDITOR: L. Sprague de Camp 1907-2000

TYPE: paperback Collection

PUBLISHER: Pyramid #R-950

COVER PRICE: $ .50

ISBN:

PAGES: 186

COPYRIGHT: by author

PUB DATE: December 1963

EDITION: 1st edition – 1st printing

COVER ARTIST: Virgil Finlay

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INDEX: 0371b - Swords and Sorcery - LSdC - 01 - IFB

 

CONTENTS:

7 • Introduction: Heroic Fantasy • essay by L. Sprague de Camp

11 • The Valor of Cappen Varra • [Cappen Varra] • (1957) • shortstory by Poul Anderson

27 • Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller • (1912) • shortstory by Lord Dunsany (aka The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller, and of the Doom That Befell Him 1911 )

33 • Shadows in the Moonlight • [Conan Universe] • (1934) • novelette by Robert E. Howard

67 • The Citadel of Darkness • (1939) • novelette by Henry Kuttner

97 • When the Sea-King's Away • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1960) • novelette by Fritz Leiber

123 • The Doom That Came to Sarnath • (1920) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft

133 • Hellsgarde • [Jirel of Joiry] • (1939) • novelette by C. L. Moore

169 • The Testament of Athammaus • (1932) • shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith

 

 

 

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