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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1979

Pages
  
272 pp.

Author
  
Andrew J. Offutt

Publisher
  
Zebra Regency romances

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Originally published
  
1979

Followed by
  
Swords Against Darkness V

Genres
  
Short story, Fantasy

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Series
  
Swords Against Darkness

Preceded by
  
Swords Against Darkness III

Similar
  
Swords Against Darkness, Swords Against Darkness II, Swords Against Darkness V, Swords Against Darkness, The Sword of Skelos

Swords Against Darkness IV is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Andrew J. Offutt. It was first published in paperback by Zebra Books in September 1979.

The book collects eleven short stories and novelettes and one essay by various fantasy authors, together with a foreword in two parts and a "special word" by Offutt.

Contents

  • "Foreword - In Two Parts" (Andrew J. Offutt)
  • "Mai-Kulala" (Charles R. Saunders)
  • "At the Sign of the Brass Breast" (Jeff P. Swycaffer)
  • "The Reaping" (Ardath Mayhar)
  • "The Ballad of Borrell" (Gordon Linzner)
  • "Deux Amours d'une Sorciere" (Tanith Lee)
  • "Of PIGS and MEN" (essay) (Poul Anderson)
  • "Cryptically Yours" (Brian Lumley)
  • "Dedication: A Special Word" (Andrew J. Offutt)
  • "The Dark Mother" (Diana L. Paxson)
  • "Wooden Crate of Violent Death" (Joey Froehlich)
  • "The Fane of the Grey Rose" (Charles de Lint)
  • "Sandmagic" (Orson Scott Card)
  • "The Edge of the World" (Manly Wade Wellman)

    • References

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