Warlocks and Warriors

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For the fantasy anthology published by Mayflower see Warlocks and Warriors (Mayflower)

Warlocks and Warriors
Dust-jacket illustration of Warlocks and Warriors
Author	edited by L. Sprague deCamp
Cover artist	Jim Steranko
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Fantasy short stories
Publisher	Putnam
Publication date	1970
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	255 pp
ISBN	NA

Warlocks and Warriors is an anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published in hardcover by Putnam in 1970, and in paperback by Berkley Books in 1971. It was the fourth such anthology assembled by de Camp, following his earlier Swords and Sorcery (1963), The Spell of Seven (1965), and The Fantastic Swordsmen (1967).

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

[edit] Contents

• "Introduction" (L. Sprague de Camp)
• "Turutal" (Ray Capella)
• "The Gods of Niom Parma" (Lin Carter)
• "The Hills of the Dead" (Robert E. Howard)
• "Thunder in the Dawn" (Henry Kuttner)
• "Thieves' House" (Fritz Leiber)
• "Black God's Kiss" (C. L. Moore)
• "Chu-Bu and Sheemish" (Lord Dunsany)
• "The Master of the Crabs" (Clark Ashton Smith)
• "The Valley of the Spiders" (H. G. Wells)
• "The Bells of Shoredan" (Roger Zelazny)

[edit] References

• Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller, 116. 

[edit] External links

• "Forgotten Stories of Fantastic Sword-fighters: L. Sprague de Camp’s (ed.) Warlocks and Warriors" - a book review by Andy Beau