The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories
10 best books like The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (Lord Dunsany): Jirel of Joiry, The Best of Leigh Brackett, The Blue Star, Zothique, Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy, Year's Best Fantasy, Selected Stories, The Oval Lady, Other Stories: Six Surreal Stories, El Borak and Other Desert Adventures, The Last Defender of Camelot
| Author | C.L. Moore |
| ISBN | 0441385702 |
C. L. Moore created Jirel, ruler of Joiry, in reaction to the beefy total-testosterone blood-and-thunder tales of '30s pulp magazines, but Jirel is no anti-Conan. She's a good Catholic girl, stubbornly purposeful, relentless in pursuit of enemies or vengeance, hard-boiled and a little stupid,...
The Best of Leigh Brackett
| Author | Leigh Brackett |
| ISBN | 0345259548 |
There was once a young girl who created a host of strange and wonderful worlds. These were her very own planets, with such fascinating features as the Sea of Morning Opals, the Mountains of White Cloud, wicked Canal cities, and lost lands full of magic and mystery.
That girl's name is Leigh Brackett....
| Author | Fletcher Pratt |
| ISBN | 0345298527 |
Lalette Asterhax could not escape her destiny. She was a hereditary witch in a world where witchcraft was banned by ecclesiastical and temporal powers. And any man who possessed her would then gain possession of her precious Blue Star…and all the powers it could bestow. Rodvard Bergelin was a reluctant...
| Author | Clark Ashton Smith |
| ISBN | 0345219384 |
Tales of Zothique is a collection of fantasy short stories by Clark Ashton Smith, and edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the sixteenth volume of its celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in June 1970. It was the first themed collection of Smith's works...
| Author | Rudyard Kipling |
| ISBN | 1933648783 |
From ghost stories to psychological suspense, the complete horror and dark fantasy stories of Rudyard Kipling.
Rudyard Kipling, a major figure of English literature, used the full power and intensity of his imagination and his writing ability in his excursions into fantasy. Kipling is considered...
Tales As Deep As Legend
And As New As DawnAcclaimed editor David G. Hartwell has gathered a harvest of shimmering beauty and powerful writing in this inaugural volume of the very best fantasy from the last year. Established masters rub elbows with rising stars in this outstanding collection of...
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 1597801801 |
Fritz Leiber's work bridges the gap between the pulp era of H. P. Lovecraft and the paperback era of P. K. Dick, and arguably is as influential as both these authors. From a historical context, Leiber, in fact, knew both of the authors, and his work can be seen as a bridge connecting the many different flavors...
The Oval Lady, Other Stories: Six Surreal Stories
| Author | Leonora Carrington |
| ISBN | 0884960374 |
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Robert E. Howard is famous for creating such immortal heroes as Conan the Cimmerian, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn. Less well-known but equally extraordinary are his non-fantasy adventure stories set in the Middle East and featuring such two-fisted heroes as Francis Xavier Gordon—known as “El...
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 0671417738 |
This paperback original is a new collection of short stories by Roger Zelazny (1937-1995), a science fiction writer every young reader should know. Even old fans will find surprises in this collection. For instance, how many devotees have read Passion Play, Zelazny s first published work, and how...
Librarian Note: Alternate/new cover edition for ASIN# B004WLOBG2.
Elon of Aerilann, Elven advisor to the High King of Men, helped negotiate the treaty between Elves, Dwarves and men. He suddenly finds that fragile truce threatened from without by an unknown enemy and from within by old hatreds...
| Author | Lucius Shepard |
| ISBN | 0948893362 |
The Jaguar Hunter: Powerful, hallucinatory stories in exotic locales
Originally posted at Fantasy Literature
I try to avoid excessive praise unless it is truly deserved, but I can say this without hesitation - Lucius Shepard was one of the best SF short story writers of the 1980s. His prose,...
| Author | H.G. Wells |
| ISBN | 0140082476 |
Although I'm not sure if this is the exact collection of short stories I have (my copy is extremely old, and I cannot find a matching cover), I can conclude that in general, H.G. Wells was extremely ahead of his time.
Throughout the stories, I had to keep reminding myself that they were written...
The House of the Wolfings
| Author | William Morris |
| ISBN | 1600963927 |
This is a moving tale about the Goths fighting off a Roman invasion. There was prophecy and doomed romance and heroic acts of self sacrifice. The characterisation was a little light, but I still felt for everyone at the end. There were strong women characters who were full of wisdom and spirit who took...
Boy in Darkness and Other Stories
The main story in this volume is the novella, Boy in Darkness, about Titus Groan. I’ve reviewed that separately HERE.
Like the main Gormenghast books, these stories are hard to categorise, but all feature subtle (and sometimes unsubtle menace) and wonderfully vivid descriptions, including...
The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume 7: A Saucer of Loneliness
| Author | Theodore Sturgeon |
| ISBN | 1556434243 |
This volume includes 12 stories, written between autumn 1952 and autumn 1953, from 20th-century science fiction and fantasy writer Theodore Sturgeon, including A Saucer of Loneliness, The Silken-Swift and The World Well Lost.
A Saucer of Loneliness
The Touch of Your Hand
The World...
The Ouroboros Cycle, Book Two: A Cautionary Tale for Young Vampires
| Author | G.D. Falksen |
| ISBN | 1479408913 |
The year is 1888 and a madman is terrorizing the East End of London. But Doctor Varanus Shashavani has far more pressing concerns to worry about than a lunatic in Whitechapel. Her charitable hospital is under siege by gang lords, her English cousins are threatening to steal her inheritance, and her best...
Wrath of the White Tigress: A Tale of Pawan Kor
| Author | David Alastair Hayden |
| ISBN | 1463763212 |
He thought he was a hero. She showed him the truth. Now he'll do anything to stop the man who made him a monster. For twenty years Jaska Bavadi has faith-fully served the Palymfar Order and its Grandmaster, the powerful wizard Salahn, but an encounter with Zyrella Anthari, last high priestess of the White...
Patients with fractured souls, clients threatened by deadly ancestor spirits, and now the paparazzi–it’s all in a day’s work for techno-shaman Olivia Lawson. Livvy has rocketed to the top of the shaman world, bringing old friends with her but also attracting new enemies.
Even as her...
The Compleat Traveller in Black
| Author | John Brunner |
| ISBN | 0312940602 |
This is a collection of stories of the Traveller in Black. It is set in a world where chaos rules. One man - the man with many names, but one nature - is charged with creating order out of the warring forces of nature.
Contents:
Imprint of Chaos (1960)
Break the Door of Hell (1966)
The...
