Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 1 • Introduction: Swordsmen and Sorcerers at Play • (1971) • essay by Lin Carter
• 13 •  Letters to Clark Ashton Smith • essay by uncredited
• 14 •  Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, postmarked July 22, 1933 ("Dear Mr. Smith: / I can hardly find words to express the pleasure...") • [Letters to Clark Ashton Smith] • (1966) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 15 •  Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, postmarked December 14, 1933 ("Dear Mr. Smith: / Only the fact that I have been sick...") • [Letters to Clark Ashton Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 17 •  Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, postmarked January 20, 1934 ("Dear Mr. Smith / Thanks very much for the kind things you said...") • [Letters to Clark Ashton Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, circa October 1933 ("Dear Mr. Smith: / Thanks very much for the kind things you said...") 1991)
• 19 •  Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, ca. first half of 1934 ("Dear Mr. Smith / I am sorry to hear you have been indisposed...") • [Letters to Clark Ashton Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, circa March 1934 ("Dear Mr. Smith: / I am sorry to hear you have been indisposed...") 1965)
• 22 •  Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, no date ("Dear Mr. Smith: / Thanks again for the drawing of a wizard...") • [Letters to Clark Ashton Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, circa January 1934 ("Dear Mr. Smith: / Thanks again for the drawing of the wizard...") 1991)
• 23 •  Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, July 23, 1935 ("Dear Mr. Smith: / I'm ashamed of my long delay in answering...") • [Letters to Clark Ashton Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 25 • Balthus of Cross Plains • (1959) • essay by George H. Scithers
• 33 • Howard's Style • (1961) • essay by Fritz Leiber
• 41 • Untitled fragment ("The wind from the Mediterranean ...") • (1959) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 47 • John Carper and His Electric Barsoom • (1956) • short story by Robert Coulson [as by Thomas Stratton]
• 55 • The Agent • (1959) • short story by Björn Nyberg
• 59 • When Set Fled • (1961) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 63 • The Testament of Snefru • (1961) • short story by John Boardman
• 69 • The Lion's Bridge • (1963) • short story by Raul Garcia Capella [as by Ray Capella]
• 83 • Eddison's Zimiamvian Trilogy • (1959) • essay by Robert E. Briney
• 89 • Of Worms and Unicorns • (1968) • essay by David Hulan
• 103 • Fafhrd and Me • (1963) • essay by Fritz Leiber
• 123 • A Man Named John • (1964) • essay by John Pocsik
• 133 • Transposition • (1963) • poem by L. Sprague de Camp
• 135 • The Gray Mouser: 1 • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1959) • poem by Fritz Leiber
• 136 • The Gray Mouser: 2 • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1959) • poem by Fritz Leiber
• 137 • I Remember Conan • (1960) • poem by Grace Adams Warren [as by Grace A. Warren]
• 139 • Stamford Bridge • (1962) • essay by Poul Anderson
• 143 • The Free-Speaking Verses • (1964) • essay by Poul Anderson
• 147 • The Loss of a Son • (1970) • poem by Poul Anderson
• 155 • Woe Is Me • poem by Avram Davidson (variant of Woe Is Me! 1961)
• 157 • Carter's Little Whiskey Stills • (1963) • poem by John Boardman
• 159 • The Thong of Thor • (1962) • poem by John Boardman
• 161 • Ghost Ships • (1968) • poem by L. Sprague de Camp
• 163 • Tiger in the Rain • (1970) • poem by L. Sprague de Camp
• 165 • What Really Happened • (1968) • poem by Chris Hebron [as by C. C. Hebron]
• 175 • One Man's BEM • (1960) • essay by Reginald Bretnor [as by R. Bretnor]
• 183 • Kush • (1960) • essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• 191 • A Furthest Note on the Red Planet • (1966) • essay by E. Hoffmann Price [as by E. Hoffman Price]
• 195 • Arming the Incomplete Enchanter • (1967) • essay by Jerry Pournelle [as by Jerry E. Pournelle]
• 207 • Richard the Lion Hearted Is Alive and Well in California • (1969) • essay by Poul Anderson
• 221 • Mundy's Vendhya • (1970) • essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• 231 • Young Man Mulligan, with Key • essay by Karen Anderson and John Boardman and Lin Carter and James Cawthorn and Juanita Coulson and Ron Ellik and Dick Eney and David McDaniel and Bruce Pelz and George H. Scithers (variant of Young Man Mulligan 1962) [as by Karen Anderson and John Boardman and Lin Carter and Jim Cawthorn and Juanita Coulson and Ron Ellik and Dick Eney and George Heap and Ted Johnstone and Bruce Pelz and George H. Scithers]
• 255 • Drinking Song from Silverlock • essay by Karen Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson and John Myers Myers [as by John Myers Myers]