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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Preceded by
  
The Spell of Seven

Originally published
  
1967

Publisher
  
Jove Books

Country
  
United States of America

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Publication date
  
1967

Pages
  
204 pp

Followed by
  
Warlocks and Warriors

Author
  
L. Sprague de Camp

Cover artist
  
Jack Gaughan

Genres
  
Short story, Fantasy

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L Sprague de Camp books, Short Stories

The Fantastic Swordsmen is a 1967 anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published in paperback by Pyramid Books. It was the third such anthology assembled by de Camp, following his earlier Swords and Sorcery (1963) and The Spell of Seven (1965). It has also been translated into German.

The book collects eight sword and sorcery tales by various authors, with an overall introduction by de Camp.

Contents

  • "Tellers of Tales" (introduction) (L. Sprague de Camp)
  • "Black Lotus" (Robert Bloch)
  • "The Fortress Unvanquishable Save for Sacnoth" (Lord Dunsany)
  • "Drums of Tombalku" (Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp)
  • "The Girl in the Gem" (John Jakes)
  • "Dragon Moon" (Henry Kuttner)
  • "The Other Gods" (H. P. Lovecraft)
  • "The Singing Citadel" (Michael Moorcock)
  • "The Tower" (Luigi de Pascalis, originally in Italian, translated by L. Sprague de Camp)

    • References

    The Fantastic Swordsmen Wikipedia
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