Swords Against Darkness
Appearance
![]() Cover of Swords Against Darkness | |
Author | edited by Andrew J. Offutt |
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Cover artist | Frank Frazetta |
Sprache | Englisch |
Series | Swords Against Darkness |
Genre | Fantasy short stories |
Publisher | Zebra Books |
Publication date | 1977 |
Publication place | Vereinigte Staaten |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Pages | 288 pp. |
ISBN | 0-89083-293-5 |
OCLC | 3595933 |
Followed by | Swords Against Darkness II |
Swords Against Darkness is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Andrew J. Offutt, the first in a series of five anthologies of the same name. It was first published in paperback by Zebra Books in February 1977, and reprinted by the same publisher in April 1990.[1]
Summary
[edit]The book collects nine short stories and novelettes by various fantasy authors, with a foreword by Offutt.
Inhalt
[edit]- "Foreword" (Andrew J. Offutt)
- "Nekht Semerkeht" (Robert E. Howard and Andrew J. Offutt)
- "The Tale of Hauk" (Poul Anderson)
- "The Smile of Oisia" (George W. Proctor)
- "Pride of the Fleet" (Bruce Jones)
- "Straggler from Atlantis" (Manly Wade Wellman)
- "The Ring of Set" (Richard L. Tierney)
- "Largarut's Bane" (Raul Garcia Capella)
- "Dragons' Teeth" (David Drake)
- "The Sustenance of Hoak" (Ramsey Campbell)
Reception
[edit]The anthology was reviewed by Lin Carter in The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 4 (1978), and by Beatrice Gemignani in Science Fiction Review, Summer 1991.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Swords Against Darkness title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database