''Swords Against Darkness V'' is an
anthology
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of
fantasy
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stories, edited by
Andrew J. Offutt, the fifth and last in a series of five anthologies of the same name. It was first published in paperback by
Zebra Books
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in November 1979, and later reprinted by the same publisher; a Canadian reprint was issued by General Paperbacks in 1981.
Summary
The book collects twelve short stories and novelettes by various fantasy authors, together with a foreword by Offutt.
Contents
*"Foreword to the Fifth Volume of Swords Against Darkness" (
Andrew J. Offutt)
*"The Mouths of Light" (
Ramsey Campbell
Ramsey Campbell (born 4 January 1946) is an English horror fiction writer, editor and critic who has been writing for well over fifty years. He is the author of over 30 novels and hundreds of short stories, many of them winners of literary awa ...
)
*"Perfidious Amber" (
Tanith Lee)
*"Awake, Awake, Ye Northern Winds" (
Simon Green)
*"Rats" (Robert Fester)
*"The Forging" (Robin Kincaid)
*"Hungry Grass" (
Keith Taylor)
*"The Tale of the Cat, the Mouse, the Sorcerer, and the Children" (Edward DeGeorge)
*"Golden Vanity" (
James Anderson)
*"The Castle of Kites and Crows" (
Darrell Schweitzer)
*"The Scream of the Rose" (Paul McGuire)
*"Joni" (Gordon Linzner)
*"Druin's Heritage" (Richard K. Lyon)
Awards
The book was nominated, together with the preceding volume, for the 1980
Balrog Award for Best Collection/Anthology.
References
1979 anthologies
Fantasy anthologies
Zebra Books books
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