Nightscapes: Tales of the Ominous and Magical

Nightscapes: Tales of the Ominous and Magical is a collection of dark fantasy short stories written by Darrell Schweitzer. It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by Wildside Press in April 2000.^[1]

The collection consists of seventeen early works of the author, including one of his tales about the legendary madman Tom O'Bedlam. The pieces were originally published from 1973-1999 in various speculative fiction magazines and anthologies.

Contents

• "A Servant of Satan" (from Interzone no. 136, Oct. 1998)
• "Adam" (from Cemetery Dance no. 24, Sum. 1996)
• "The Liar's Mouth" (from Cemetery Dance no. 16, Sum. 1993)
• "The Voice of Bel-Hemad" (from Fantasy Book v. 5, no. 3, Sep. 1986)
• "Bitter Chivalry" (from Realms of Fantasy v. 5, no. 3, Feb. 1999)
• "Caliban's Revenge" (from Weirdbook no. 13, May 1978)
• "In the Evening of Dreams" (from Weirdbook no. 6, Jan. 1973)
• "The Witch of the World's End" (from 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, 1995)
• "On the Holy Mountain" (from Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine no. 25, Fall 1994)
• "Smart Guy" (from Dante's Disciples, Feb. 1996)
• "Return from Exile" (from Terra Incognita no. 3, Sum. 1998)
• "Kvetchula" (from Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine no. 36, Sum. 1997)
• "The Silence in Kandretiphon" (from Adventures in Sword & Sorcery no. 3, 1996)
• "Running to Camelot" (from Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine no. 40, Sum. 1998)
• "Told by Moonlight" (from The Camelot Chronicles, Aug. 1992)
• "The Epilogue of the Sword" (from Excalibur, May 1995)
• "Time Enough for Lunacy" (from Weirdbook no. 25, Aut. 1990)

References