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Discoveries in Fantasy

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Cover artist
  
Peter Le Vasseur

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Author
  
Lin Carter

Publisher
  
Ballantine Books

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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1972

Originally published
  
1972

Preceded by
  
The Spawn of Cthulhu

Genres
  
Fantasy, Short story

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Series
  
Ballantine Adult Fantasy series

Followed by
  
Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy I

Similar
  
Lin Carter books, Short Stories

Discoveries in Fantasy is an anthology of fantasy short stories, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books in March 1972 as the forty-third volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. It was the sixth such anthology assembled by Carter for the series.

The book collects seven tales by four neglected fantasy authors, Ernest Bramah, Donald Corley, Richard Garnett and Eden Phillpotts, with an overall introduction and notes by Carter. The cover illustrates a scene from one of the tales, Donald Corley's "The Bird with the Golden Beak."

Contents

  • "Introduction" (Lin Carter)
  • "The Vision of Yin" (Ernest Bramah, from The Wallet of Kai Lung)
  • "The Dragon of Chang Tao" (Ernest Bramah, from Kai Lung's Golden Hours)
  • "The Bird with the Golden Beak" (Donald Corley, from The Haunted Jester)
  • "The Song of the Tombelaine" (Donald Corley, from The House of Lost Identity)
  • "The Poet of Panopolis" (Richard Garnett, from The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales)
  • "The City of Philosophers" (Richard Garnett, from The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales)
  • "The Miniature" (Eden Phillpotts)

    • References

    Discoveries in Fantasy Wikipedia
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