Big book (more than 900 pages)
contain sword and sorcery stories from the beginnings of the genre to modern times
The cover suck though :)
Swords Against Darkness by Paula Guran (big collection of sword and sorcery short stories across times)
Type: Short story collection
Swords Against Darkness (recent sword and sorcery short stories)
Date: 2010-2020
MainCategory: FANTASY
Type: Short story collection
Genre: Sword and sorcery
Lenght: short
Swords Against Darkness is a collection of short stories in the tradition of Robert E. Howard…
Robert E. Howard provides weird surprises in a tale of a Spanish opportunist, a “lost” Aztec city, and a centuries-old mage.
The goddess of Chance gambles with a barbarian swordsman — for his life. The Empire of Rome is threatened with disaster by a barbaric sorcerer who raises mindless killers for the earth itself. The last survivor of Atlantis is called upon to do battle against a human-eating creature only he can brave — to save a race of giants.
This excellent collection of heroic fantasy fiction is a must read for any fan of swords and sorcery.
The Mighty Warriors (mix of old and new sword and sorcery short stories)
Date: 2010-2020
MainCategory: FANTASY
Type: Short story collection
Genre: Sword and sorcery
Lenght: short
Come back to those mist-shrouded days of yesteryear when the land shook under the tread of barbarians, wizards and monsters! Join such legends as Lin Carter’s legendary Thongor in a new tale of mighty deeds and fearless swords. Thrill to new characters who take up the bloody axe of war and adventure like Charles R. Rutledge’s ageless Kharrn and Adrian Cole’s Elak of Atlantis while discovering new characters destined to carve their names in bloody history. None can stand before them for they are THE MIGHTY WARRIORS!
Flashing Swords #7 (recent sword and sorcery short stories)
Date: 2020 Onward
MainCategory: FANTASY
Type: Short story collection
Genre: Sword and sorcery
Lenght: medium
Lin Carter’s Flashing Swords #7 continues the grand tradition of Sword & Sorcery fiction, a genre created by the great Robert E. Howard! Lin Carter, with his fellow Hyborian Legionaries L. Sprague de Camp, John Jakes, Gardner Fox, Michael Moorcock, and others, kept the train charging down the tracks in the 1960s with exciting new novels. De Camp, Hans Stefan Santesson, Andrew J. Offutt, and Marion Zimmer Bradley shepherded valuable anthology series that reprinted heroic fantasy rarities as well as new tales by Richard L. Tierney and others. Perhaps the most famous of these excellent series was Flashing Swords!
Die By the Sword (a recent sword and sorcery short stories collection)
Date: 2020 Onward
MainCategory: FANTASY
Type: Short story collection
Genre: Sword and sorcery
Lenght: medium
Seriesize: .2
From the hells beneath the hells comes a brand-new anthology of sword and sorcery adventure! DMR Books presents yet another tome of fantastic tales by some of the most exciting authors in the field today. These scribes of blood and thunder maintain the legacy of classic sword and sorcery while expanding it into uncharted terrain.
Join Morcar as he supplicates a fierce goddess in a blood ritual to avenge his kin and reclaim his home… Come face-to-face with Roman legionaries and vicious dogmen in a haunted riverside adventure of Simon of Gitta… Ride with Duke Eldol as he steeps the Conqueror’s Spear in the blood of Saxon invaders and wages war on a corrupt Briton king… Hunt down a vampyre sorceress in an enchanted crystalline pyramid with Karnov, Phantom-Clad Rider of the Cosmic Ice… Whether to claim riches, a lusty wench or their own vengeance, the latest exploits of these and other mighty heroes come to vivid life within these pages. Experience the thrill as they slay and conquer in savage lands.
The inaugural edition of this action-packed series will soon likely join the ranks of such well-regarded classic anthologies as Swords Against Darkness and Flashing Swords. Rise to the sound of battle and wipe the blood-mist from your blade. Get ready to live and DIE BY THE SWORD!
The Best of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly: Volume 1, 2009-2011
Date: 2010-2020
MainCategory: FANTASY
Types: Series, Short story collection
Genres: General fantasy, Sword and sorcery
Lenght: medium
Seriesize: .3
Tales gathered from frozen pre-history, sweltering jungles, and smoky mead halls, legends of this world and whispers of other worlds briefly glimpsed — here then are gathered works of adventure and danger, love and fury, seventeen of the best from the early days of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly.
Fiction by Richard Marsden, James Lecky, William Gerke, R. Michael Burns, Christopher Wood, Robert Rhodes, Dariel R. A. Quiogue, Jesse Bangs, P. Djeli Clark, and David Pilling.
3 Books a fourth should come soon
The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard
Date: 1900-1950
Type: Short story collection
Genres: Dark Fantasy, Horror/occult, Sword and sorcery
Lenght: Lenghty
Author: Robert E. Howard
Narrator: Robertson Dean
Here are Robert E. Howard’s greatest horror tales, all in their original, definitive versions.
Some of Howard’s best-known characters—Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among them—roam the forbidding locales of the author’s fevered imagination, from the swamps and bayous of the Deep South to the fiend-haunted woods outside Paris to remote jungles in Africa.
The collection includes Howard’s masterpiece “Pigeons from Hell,”which Stephen King calls “one of the finest horror stories of [the twentieth] century,” a tale of two travelers who stumble upon the ruins of a Southern plantation–and into the maw of its fatal secret. In “Black Canaan” even the best warrior has little chance of taking down the evil voodoo man with unholy powers–and none at all against his wily mistress, the diabolical High Priestess of Damballah. In these and other lavishly illustrated classics, such as the revenge nightmare “Worms of the Earth” and“The Cairn on the Headland,”Howard spins tales of unrelenting terror, the legacy of one of the world’s great masters of the macabre.
The Beast Within: A Vampire the Masquerade Anthology
Date: 2010-2020
MainCategory: CONTEMPORARY
Type: Short story collection
Genres: Horror/occult, Urban Fantasy
trope: Vampires
Lenght: medium
Universe: vampire the masquerade
Unseen. The Kindred Move Among Us
Not merely mad beasts of lonely hunters, the vampires of the World of Darkness who call themselves The Kindred because of the blood that elementally binds them together, are dangerously organized and cunning. They hide behind a plan they call the Masquerade so that they do not draw the attention or ire of mortals, and the society this masquerade obscures is as rich with wonders and as rife with conflict as any ever known among men.
This collection of stories concerning the Kindred of the World of Darkness serves as both an introduction to their nature and an expose of the danger they pose. Collected within this second edition are favorites of the first edition, including stories by S.P. Somtow and Mathew J. Costello, as well as two all-new stories from Gherbod Flemming and Eric Griffin, two authors of the bestselling Vampire Clan Novel series.
The Arkham Detective Collection
Date: 2010-2020
MainCategories: CONTEMPORARY, HORROR
Period: Roaring Twenties/pre WW2
Type: Short story collection
Lenght: medium
“Some cities grew; Arkham just festered,” so said the hard-boiled police detective that oversees the Mythos Division, a department that is mandated, by his superiors, to investigate things that go bump in the night . . . Lovecraftian things!
The Arkham Detective hunts down oddities that are misshapen, vague or unseen, and at other times, material horrors, all of which usually leave bloody trails wherever they go.
Byron Craft has mastered Cthulhu Mythos pulp stories set during the era of the Great Depression. His nameless plainclothes officer pursues ungodly terrors in four riveting stories that propel the reader through Arkham, Innsmouth, Dunwich and, of course, Miskatonic University. Lovecraft and detective fans alike will enjoy this collection.
Legends of New Pulp Fiction
MainCategory: CONTEMPORARY
Type: Short story collection
Genre: Detective/crime/Mystery
trope: Pulp
Lenght: Lenghty
Reception: LIttle known
LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION • Publisher – Airship 27 Productions • Editor – Ron FortierAssistant Editors – Todd Jones – Jaime RamosArt Director – Rob DavisCover Painter – Douglas Klauba • Collected within these two covers are sixty fantastic stories of action, adventure, mystery, horror, fantasy and suspense. It is a treasure chest of the best of the New Pulp Movement, the fastest growing style of fiction writing in world today. And all of it generated as a benefit project . Sixty writers and thirty six artists have pooled their talents to produce a volume like none other ever conceived before. If you are unfamiliar with New Pulp, then look no further than this one book. Then buckle up and enjoy the ride.
