Lin Carter, founder and director of the world-famous“Adult Fantasy” series, has consented to present each year the best of the short fiction in the world of pure imagination and fantastic storytelling, in the form of this new DAW anthology.

Here you will find as fabulous a volume of marvels as anyone could hope for. Here, for instance, will be found tales by

ROBERT E. HOWARD
JACK VANCE
FRITZ LEIBER
LLOYD ALEXANDER
L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP

and many more… with stories eerie and outre, breathtaking and colorful, fantastic and unexpected… and most of them from sources that none but Lin Carter could have explored.

For every reader, whether of fantasy or of science fiction, there are gems herein that will not be soon forgotten.

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“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)

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