En samling noveller av kända författare inom fantasygenren. Pyramid Books, 1963. Illustrerad av Virgil Finlay. Innehåller berättelser av Poul Anderson, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Henry Kuttner, Clark Ashton Smith, C.L. Moore, Fritz Leiber, etc.

Swords & Sorcery: Action, magic, enchantment — eight novelettes by masters of heroic fantasy is a collection of short stories of heroic fantasy.

The editor of the anthology, L. Sprague de Camp, sent a copy to Tolkien in 1964. Tolkien "found [the anthology] interesting but did not much like the stories in it".[1][2] Tolkien sent a letter in 1964 about the anthology to de Camp,[3] and also wrote a critique of "Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweler", one of the contributions to the collection.

De Camp mentions Tolkien in his Introduction: "..let us give credit to [William] Morris for reviving the genre. Echoes of his novel [The Well at the World's End] are still heard in J.R.R. Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring trilogy and in Fletcher Pratt's The Well of the Unicorn".

Contents:

L. Sprague de Camp: "Introduction: Heroic Fantasy"
Poul Anderson: "The Valor of Cappen Varra"
Lord Dunsany: "Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller"
Robert E. Howard: "Shadows in the Moonlight"
Henry Kuttner: "The Citadel of Darkness"
Fritz Leiber: "When the Sea King's Away"
H.P. Lovecraft: "The Doom that came to Sarnath"
C.L. Moore: "Hellsgarde"
Clark Ashton Smith: "The Testament of Athammaus"

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