The Broken Sword

10 best books like The Broken Sword (Poul Anderson): The First Book of Lankhmar, The Emperor of Dreams, Darkness Weaves, The Complete Compleat Enchanter, The Mabinogion Tetralogy, Gloriana, The Well of the Unicorn, Mistress of Mistresses, The Conan Chronicles: Volume 2: The Hour of the Dragon, The Green Pearl and Madouc

The First Book of Lankhmar

Author	Fritz Leiber
ISBN	1857983270

From the moment when they first met, in the commission of the same, audacious theft, Fafhrd, the giant barbarian warrior from the Cold Waste, and the Gray Mouser, master thief, novice wizard and expert swordsman, felt no ordinary affinity. Forged over the gleam of sharpened steel as, back to back, they...

The Emperor of Dreams

Author

Clark Ashton Smith

From the vampire-haunted alleyways of mediaeval Averoigne to the shining spires of dying Zothique, Clark Ashton Smith weaves his literary sorcery, transporting us to forgotten realms of necromancies and nightmares, lost worlds and other dimensions. In the enchanted regions of Hyperborea, Atlantis...

Darkness Weaves

Author	Karl Edward Wagner
ISBN	0446895989

WHO IS THE ULTIMATE SWORD AND SORCERY BADASS: KANE OR CONAN?

4.5 to 5.0 stars. Today, I thought I would provide a public service by definitively answering the above question, which has been confounding fantasy fan boys for decades.

Now before we (and by we I mean myself and the other...

The Complete Compleat Enchanter

Author	L. Sprague de Camp
ISBN	0671698095

This omnibus volume brings all five of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt's "Compleat Enchanter" tales together in one nearly 500 page volume -- a good thing or bad thing depending on one's perspective, since each one of them is short, and really, light enough, to tempt one towards perusing on into...

The Mabinogion Tetralogy

Author	Evangeline Walton
ISBN	1585675040

The retelling of the epic Welsh myth that is "certainly among the top 5 fantasy series of the twentieth century" (sfsite.com).

The Mabinogion is to Welsh mythology what the tales of Zeus, Hera, and Apollo are to Greek myth. these tales constitute a powerful work of the imagination, ranking...

Gloriana

Author	Michael Moorcock
ISBN	0446691402

A fable satirizing Spenser's "The Fairie Queen" and reflecting the real life of Elizabeth I, tells of a woman who ascends to the throne upon the death of her debauched and corrupted father, King Hern. Gloriana's reign brings the Empire of Albion into a Golden Age, but her oppressive responsibilities...

The Well of the Unicorn

Author	Fletcher Pratt
ISBN	0345297296

Robbed of lands and heritage by the rapacious Vulkings, young Airar Alvarson had only his limited gift for sorcery to aid him against a world of savage intrigues. Then he met a mysterious sorcerer and was given a strange iron ring -- a ring that led him into a futile conspiracy and soon had him fleeing for...

Mistress of Mistresses

Author	E.R. Eddison
ISBN	0575072849

The second volume in the fantasy classic most often compared with J.R.R. Tolkien

The Worm Ouroboros was the first work from E.R. Eddison that excited deeply felt enthusiasm from figures of literary stature. THE MISTRESS OF MISTRESSES, part of "The Worm" group, has long been unavailable in...

The Conan Chronicles: Volume 2: The Hour of the Dragon

Author	Robert E. Howard
ISBN	1857987470

Conan the Cimmerian: he rose from boy-thief and mercenary to become king of Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nor demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legendary Hyborian Age. Collected...

The Green Pearl and Madouc

Author	Jack Vance
ISBN	0575075171

In Lyonesse: The Green Pearl and Madouc the magical lands of high enchantment - the Elder Isles, the land, long-vanished beneath the ocean, from which King Arthur's ancestors fled to Britain - come to brilliant life again. In this ancient land the realm of chivalry and the world of faerie exist side by...

Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams

Author	C.L. Moore
ISBN	0575074175

Jirel of Joiry, the first of the great female warriors, the beautiful commander of the strongest fortress in the kingdom, would face any danger to defend her beloved country. She wielded her bright sword against mighty armies, the sinister magic of evil sorcerers and fearsome castles guarded by the...

The House on the Borderland and Other Novels

Author	William Hope Hodgson
ISBN	0575073721

The House on the Borderland and Other Novels is a collection of short novels by author William Hope Hodgson. It was published by Arkham House in 1946 in an edition of 3,014 copies. The collection was reprinted by Gollancz in 2002, with a new introduction by China Miéville, as volume 33 of their Fantasy...

Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories

Author	Leigh Brackett
ISBN	0575076895

Well, this was quite a hefty collection containing many stories and a couple of novellas, mostly set on Mars or Venus.

In some ways, Leigh Brackett carried on the tradition of swash-buckling adventures in space started by Edgar Rice Burroughs but it's not just more of the same. There is a progression...

The Mark of the Beast and Other Horror Tales (Dover Horror Classics)

Author	Rudyard Kipling
ISBN	0486414299

I'm not quite sure if it happened only once, but I seem to have the memory in my mind of the blind Jorge Luis Borges, whenever an English-speaking visitor came to interview him, asking the visitor to read out loud to him from the work of Rudyard Kipling. As for myself, it has been some years since I've read...

Time And The Gods

Author	Lord Dunsany
ISBN	1857989899

I can scarcely say how much I admire the way Lord Dunsany distills the seizing (and subsequent paralysis) of the mind by an idea, then assaults that hold with some stark realisation. But the characters are never aware of the ironies, they simply play out in the narrative, which is what so successfully...