Realms of Wizardry

Realms of Wizardry: An Anthology of Adult Fantasy

Dust cover of Realms of Wizardry: An Anthology of Adult Fantasy
Author	edited by Lin Carter
Cover artist	Robert Aulicino
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy short stories
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	1976
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	xv, 269 pp.
ISBN	0-385-11393-5
OCLC	2372325
Dewey Decimal	813/.0876
LC Class	PZ1 .R255 PS648.F3

Realms of Wizardry: An Anthology of Adult Fantasy is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in December 1976.^[1]

The book collects sixteen tales and excerpts from novels by various fantasy authors, with an overall introduction and notes on the individual authors by Carter.

Contents

• "Introduction: The Horns of Elfland" (Lin Carter)
• "Lord Dunsany" (Lin Carter)
• "The Hoard of the Gibbelins" (Lord Dunsany)
• "The Doom That Came to Sarnath" (H. P. Lovecraft)
• "H. P. Lovecraft" (Lin Carter)
• "Robert Bloch" (Lin Carter)
• "Black Lotus" (Robert Bloch)
• "Gary Myers" (Lin Carter)
• "The Gods of Earth" (Gary Myers)
• "Richard Garnett" (Lin Carter)
• "The City of Philosophers" (Richard Garnett)
• "James Branch Cabell" (Lin Carter)
• "Some Ladies and Jurgen" (excerpt from Jurgen) (James Branch Cabell)
• "Donald Corley" (Lin Carter)
• "The Book of Lullûme" (Donald Corley)
• "H. Rider Haggard" (Lin Carter)
• "The Descent Beneath Kôr" (excerpt from She) (H. Rider Haggard)
• "A. Merritt" (Lin Carter)
• "The Whelming of Cherkis (excerpt from The Metal Monster) (A. Merritt)
• "Hannes Bok" (Lin Carter)
• "How Orcher Broke the Koph (excerpt from The Sorcerer's Ship) (Hannes Bok)
• "Robert E. Howard" (Lin Carter)
• "Swords of the Purple Kingdom" (Robert E. Howard)
• "Clifford Ball" (Lin Carter)
• "The Goddess Awakes" (Clifford Ball)
• "C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner" (Lin Carter)
• "Quest of the Starstone" (C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner)
• "Jack Vance" (Lin Carter)
• "Liane the Wayfarer" (Jack Vance)
• "Michael Moorcock" (Lin Carter)
• "Master of Chaos" (Michael Moorcock)
• "Roger Zelazny" (Lin Carter)
• "Thelinde's Song" (Roger Zelazny)
• "Other Realms of Wizardry: Suggestions for Further Reading" (Lin Carter)

Notes