Lost Worlds (Lin Carter)

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Lost Worlds

cover art from first edition
Author Lin Carter
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Fantasy short stories
Publisher DAW Books
Publication date 1980
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 176
ISBN 0879975563

Lost Worlds is a collection of short stories by science fiction and fantasy author Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in 1980.

The book collects eight stories by Carter, three of them collaborative, on the subject of such "lost worlds" as Atlantis, Mu, Valusia, and other "sunken continents beyond memory," together with an introduction and afterward by the author.

[edit] Contents

  • "Lost Worlds of Time" (introduction)
  • "The Scroll of Morloc" (with Clark Ashton Smith)
  • "The Stairs in the Crypt" (with Clark Ashton Smith)
  • "The Thing in the Pit"
  • "Thieves of Zangabal"
  • "Keeper of the Emerald Flame"
  • "Riders Beyond the Sunrise" (with Robert E. Howard)
  • "The Twelve Wizards of Ong"
  • "The Seal of Zaon Sathla"
  • "Lost Worlds to Come" (afterword)


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