The Year's Best Fantasy Stories

1975 anthology edited by Lin Carter

The Year's Best Fantasy Stories
First edition cover
Author	Lin Carter (editor)
Cover artist	George Barr
Language	English
Series	The Year's Best Fantasy Stories
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	DAW Books
Publication date	1975
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	175
Followed by	The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 2

The Year's Best Fantasy Stories is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by American writer Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in 1975. Despite the anthology's title, it actually gathers together pieces originally published during a two-year period, 1973 and 1974.^[1]

Summary

The book collects eleven novelettes and short stories by various fantasy authors deemed by the editor the best to be published during the period represented, together with an introductory survey of the year in fantasy, an essay on the year's best fantasy books, and introductory notes to the individual stories by the editor. The pieces include posthumously published works (the stories by Howard and Bok), and a "posthumous collaboration" (the story by Smith and Carter).

"The Year in Fantasy" (Lin Carter)
"The Jewel of Arwen" (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
"The Sword Dyrnwyn" (Lloyd Alexander)
"The Temple of Abomination" (Robert E. Howard)
"The Double Tower" (Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter)
"Trapped in the Shadowland" (Fritz Leiber)
"Black Hawk of Valkarth" (Lin Carter)
"Jewel Quest" (Hannes Bok)
"The Emperor's Fan" (L. Sprague de Camp)
"Falcon's Mate" (Pat McIntosh)
"The City of Madness" (Charles R. Saunders)
"The Seventeen Virgins" (Jack Vance)
"The Year's Best Fantasy Books" (Lin Carter)

Reception

The anthology was reviewed by Judy Rosenbaum in The Science Fiction Review Monthly, October 1975, Chris Marler in Astral Dimensions #2, Winter 1975-1976, Richard Delap Delap's F & SF Review, January 1976, Frank Denton in The Diversifier #13 March 1976, and (in German) Hermann Urbanek in SF Perry Rhodan Magazin, April 1981, and Michael Adrian in Das Geheimnis der Taggari, 1981.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b The Year's Best Fantasy Stories title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Works by Lin Carter

Callisto

Green Star

Mars

The Flame of Iridar (1967)
"The Martian El Dorado of Parker Wintley" (1976)
The Valley Where Time Stood Still (1974)
The City Outside the World (1977)
Down to a Sunless Sea (1984)
The Man Who Loved Mars (1973)

Zarkon

Zanthodon

Journey to the Underground World (1979)
Zanthodon (1980)
Hurok of the Stone Age (1981)
Darya of the Bronze Age (1981)
Eric of Zanthodon (1982)

Thongor

The Wizard of Lemuria (1965/69)
Thongor and the Dragon City (1966/70)
Thongor Against the Gods (1967)
Thongor in the City of Magicians (1968)
Thongor at the End of Time (1968)
Thongor Fights the Pirates of Tarakus (1970)
Young Thongor (2012)
The Sword of Thongor (Robert M. Price) (2016)

Conan

Novels	Conan of the Isles (1968) Conan the Barbarian (1982) Conan the Buccaneer (1971) Conan the Liberator (1979)
Short works	"Black Sphinx of Nebthu" (1973) "Black Tears" (1968) "The Castle of Terror" (1969) "The City of Skulls" (1967) "The Curse of the Monolith" (1968) "Death-Song of Conan the Cimmerian" (1972) "The Gem in the Tower" (1978) "The Hand of Nergal" (1967) "The Ivory Goddess" (1978) "The Lair of the Ice Worm" (1969) "Legions of the Dead" (1978) "Moon of Blood" (1978) "Red Moon of Zembabwei" (1974) "Shadows in the Dark" (1978) "Shadows in the Skull" (1975) "The Snout in the Dark" (1969) "The Thing in the Crypt" (1967) "The Witch of the Mists" (1972)
Collections	Conan (1967) The Conan Chronicles (1989) The Conan Chronicles 2 (1990) Conan of Aquilonia (1977) Conan of Cimmeria (1969) Conan the Swordsman (1978) Conan the Wanderer (1968) Sagas of Conan (2004)

Kull

"Exile of Atlantis" (1967)
King Kull (1967)

Gondwane

Terra Magica

Kesrick (1982)
Dragonrouge (1984)
Mandricardo (1987)
Callipygia (1988)

Kylix

Other

Tara of the Twilight (1979)
The Tired Tailor of Oz (2001)
The Merry Mountaineer of Oz (2004)

Collections

Beyond the Gates of Dream (1969)
Lost Worlds (1980)
The Xothic Legend Cycle: The Complete Mythos Fiction of Lin Carter (1997)
Lin Carter's Simrana Cycle (2018)

Anthologies
edited

BAFS and Doubleday anthologies	Dragons, Elves, and Heroes (1969) The Young Magicians (1969) Golden Cities, Far (1970) New Worlds for Old (1971) The Spawn of Cthulhu (1971) Double Phoenix (1971) Discoveries in Fantasy (1972) Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy I (1972) Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II (1973) Kingdoms of Sorcery (1976) Realms of Wizardry (1976)
Flashing Swords!	Flashing Swords! #1 (1973) Flashing Swords! #2 (1973) Flashing Swords! #3: Warriors and Wizards (1976) Flashing Swords! #4: Barbarians and Black Magicians (1977) Flashing Swords! #5: Demons and Daggers (1981) Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! #6 (2020/21) Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! #7 (2023) Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! #8 (2023)
Year's Best Fantasy	The Year's Best Fantasy Stories (1975) The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 2 (1976) The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 3 (1977) The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 4 (1978) The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 5 (1980) The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 6 (1980)
Weird Tales	Weird Tales #1 (1980) Weird Tales #2 (1980) Weird Tales #3 (1981) Weird Tales #4 (1983)
Other	The Magic of Atlantis (1970)