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Sword and sorcery stories take place in a fictional world where magic exists. The setting can be an Earth in the mythical past or distant future, an imaginary other world or an alien planet. Sometimes sword and sorcery stories are influenced by horror, dark fantasy or science fiction. Sword and sorcery, however, does not seek to give a ...
Swords and Sorcery is an anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by L. Sprague de Camp and illustrated by Virgil Finlay.It was first published in paperback by Pyramid Books in 1963, [1] [2] but most of the stories were originally from 1930s pulp magazines.
Savage Scrolls, Volume One: Thrilling Tales of Sword-and-Sorcery is an anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by Jason Ray Carney.It was first published in trade paperback and ebook by Pulp Hero Press in November 2020, [1] and takes its title from Savage Scrolls, Volume One: Scholarship from the Hyborian Age (2017), an earlier volume of literary criticism ...
Quest for the Mighty Sword (1990) (Ator 4) Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back (1990) Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (1991) Deathstalker IV: Match of Titans (1991) Wizards of the Demon Sword (1991) [2] Army of Darkness (1992) Quest of the Delta Knights (1993) The NeverEnding Story III (1994) Yamato Takeru (1994) First Knight ...
The Mighty Barbarians: Great Sword and Sorcery Heroes is a 1969 anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by Hans Stefan Santesson.It was first published in paperback by Lancer Books in 1969, [1] and was later followed up by the subsequent Lancer anthology The Mighty Swordsmen.
Articles related to the genre of sword and sorcery, a subgenre of fantasy characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures. An element of romance is often present, as is an element of magic and the supernatural.
It has been called "perhaps the first sword and sorcery story ever written", with almost all the usual elements of the type present, [1] [8] and The Encyclopedia of Fantasy states that it "almost singlehandedly created the Sword and Sorcery genre"; [5] in his introduction to In the Land of Time, and Other Fantasy Tales, S. T. Joshi noted it as ...
The eleven tales that make up Return to Nevèrÿon are set before the dawn of history. Nevèrÿon (pronounced "Ne-VER-y-on" according to the preface to Tales of Nevèrÿon) is the fictional land the stories are set in, a name derived from the aristocratic neighborhood of Neveryóna (pronounced "Ne-ver-y-O-na") in the capital city Kolhari.