The Year's Best Fantasy Stories
This article is about the first book in an annual series. For subsequent years, see The Year's Best Fantasy Stories (series).
 First edition cover | |
| Author | Lin Carter (editor) |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | George Barr |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Year's Best Fantasy Stories |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | DAW Books |
Publication date | 1975 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 175 pp |
| Followed by | The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 2 |
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories is a 1975 anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books. Despite the anthology's title, it actually gathers together pieces originally published during a two-year period, 1973 and 1974.[1]
The book collects eleven novelettes and short stories by various fantasy authors deemed by the editor the best to be published during the period represented, together with an introductory survey of the year in fantasy, an essay on the year's best fantasy books, and introductory notes to the individual stories by the editor. The pieces include posthumously published works (the stories by Howard and Bok), and a "posthumous collaboration" (the story by Smith and Carter).
Contents
- "The Year in Fantasy" (Lin Carter)
- "The Jewel of Arwen" (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
- "The Sword Dyrnwyn" (Lloyd Alexander)
- "The Temple of Abomination" (Robert E. Howard)
- "The Double Tower" (Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter)
- "Trapped in the Shadowland" (Fritz Leiber)
- "Black Hawk of Valkarth" (Lin Carter)
- "Jewel Quest" (Hannes Bok)
- "The Emperor's Fan" (L. Sprague de Camp)
- "Falcon's Mate" (Pat McIntosh)
- "The City of Madness" (Charles R. Saunders)
- "The Seventeen Virgins" (Jack Vance)
- "The Year's Best Fantasy Books" (Lin Carter)
Notes
- ↑ The Year's Best Fantasy Stories title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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