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One of a pair of reprint anthologies Lin Carter put together for Doubleday in the mid-70s after the plug had been pulled on the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. (The companion volume is Realms Of Wizardry.)
I believe these are the last major reprint anthologies Carter edited (his editorial work continued with Flashing Swords, Year's Best Fantasy and a paperback Weird Tales revival, but that's kind of a different thing).
Even moreso than his Ballantine Adult Fantasy anthologies, these books seem de ...more
I believe these are the last major reprint anthologies Carter edited (his editorial work continued with Flashing Swords, Year's Best Fantasy and a paperback Weird Tales revival, but that's kind of a different thing).
Even moreso than his Ballantine Adult Fantasy anthologies, these books seem de ...more
This is yet another instance of Carter telling everyone "this is what you should read". While having curating samples rather than a list of sources is nice--Carter selects specific sequences, for the longer works--and his eye is at least partially on the rarer, out-of-print item (Robert H Barlow, here, as well as a Pusadian story by L Sprague de Camp), it remains that this anthology was put together some time after his Ballantine Adult Fantasy days, and is yet another way for him to slice the sa
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