Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series by Lin Carter (ed. )
Ballantine Adult Fantasy #6
BAF 06 - Dragons, Elves, and Heroes
Lin Carter (ed. )
There is magic in the grand old tales that have survived through centuries of time. Even the names of the books have a ring that sets the blood pounding—THE VOLSUNGA SAGA, THE SHAH-NAMAH, THE MABINOGIAN.From all over the world, from all periods of ancient time, the great myths and heroic tales thunder down through the ages. Each country, each region has its legends. Somewhere, sometime, somehow, some often unknown scribe has set the tales down in permanent form.In this volume Lin Carter has gathered together samplings from this richest of all sources of adult fantasy and although their original names may sometimes be anonymous, there surely has never been such a pride of taletellers together at one time as we have in DRAGONS, ELVES, AND HEROES
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Ballantine Adult Fantasy #7
BAF 07 - The Young Magicans
Lin Carter (ed. )
As in the notable companion volume to this work, dragons, elves, and heroes,these are tales of fantasy, of wonder, myth, glory—heroic chronicles in the tradition of the ancient legends. These are the tales by contemporary writers that prove magic has not left the world, that mysterious powers and epic deeds still hold the fascination for mankind that they did when stories were told by word-of-mouth. So the young magicians of the tide carry on the tradition in tales that charm, terrify, enchant, embolden and reassure. For it it is true that the reading world is turning more and more to fantasy to escape the awesome realities of our world, it is equally true that man models himself on that larger-than-life figure, that Cod, or gods, that heroic knight or seductive enchantress, that being with the extra power to dare what mere mortals cannot—but whose courage is very mortal indeed. And always there is the reinforcing knowledge that it is men who weave these tales… So here are magnificent works by Morris, Eddison, Cabell, Merritt, Dunsany, Lovecraft, Smith, Carter, Howard, de Camp, Kuttner, Vance, Lewis and finally, new poems by that magician without whom no anthology of contemporary fantasy would be complete—J. R. R. Tolkien.
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Ballantine Adult Fantasy #22
BAF 22 - Golden Cities, Far
Lin Carter (ed. )
There is, perhaps, no reading matter so flagrantly devoted to pure pleasure as adult fantasy.It has appeared in written form now for at least several hundred years, but the tradition of joy in the tales of man’s more impossible adventures and endeavors goes back far beyond written history. No country in the world is without its myths, its magic, its epic legends, its gods and heros of monumental stature.Lin Carter writes with infectious enthusiasm about the origins and sources of the glittering array of fantasies he has collected in this volume—indeed, his joy in the discoveries he has made is at least as much fun to follow as the reading of each selection itself. And this joy is perhaps why these stories live, and have lived for centuries—in every age there have been those who loved the tales of the past and had the ability to share their love and to perpetuate the grand and glorious history of fantasy.
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Ballantine Adult Fantasy #36
BAF 36 - The Spawn of Cthulhu
Lin Carter (ed. )
THE GREEN HILL OF NEW ENGLAND……would seem to be a most unlikely spot for a visitation of horror. Yet, through the creative fertility of H. P. Lovecraft, an area of this lovely section has become known to thousands—indeed, possibly hundreds of thousands—as the scene of the regeneration of ghastly beings, the revival of a whole fluidly connected mythos spanning time, space, and most particularly, the depths of the Earth.So compelling and realistic is this creation that other writers have felt impelled to add their contributions to the arcane and macabre possibilities of the Cthulhu Mythos—hence this remarkable volume of stories and poems generated by the nightmare worlds of H. P. Lovecraft, a musty and mystic collection in which the master, one cannot help but believe, would have reveled.
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Ballantine Adult Fantasy #44
BAF 43 - Discoveries in Fantasy
Lin Carter (ed. )
Four “lost worlds”…the worlds created by four remarkable writers, of which we here present what can be only a small sample of the richness, color, wit and excitement contained in the superlative writings of four highly imaginative gentlemen of letters., For fantasy is truly the playground of some of the finest writers and most fertile minds of all time, from Homer (and before) to the present. Except that in the old days, the mythmakers were dealing with the realities of their time, the monsters and magicks that made up their worlds were recognised as part of a real cosmos—and who knows, maybe they were right…
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Ballantine Adult Fantasy #52
BAF 52 - Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy - Vol1
Lin Carter (ed. )
ntasy writing. Indeed, it would be difficult to group such a widely disparate pride of authors as Pratt, de Camp, Anatole France, Robert Chambers and William Morris, except in the worlds of the fantastic.For here the minds of many men dwell together, each contributing his unique gift of imagination. Here is writing talent displayed —indeed, joyously showing off—in the playground of minds that revel in unfettered flights of marvels and wonders and magicks.That is what makes adult fantasy so rich and so rewarding—both to its creators and to its appreciators.
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Ballantine Adult Fantasy #56
BAF 56 - Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy - Vol2
Lin Carter (ed. )
Major fantasy novellas by two newly-rediscovered masters of the genre, Ernest Bramah and Eden Phillpotts, are herein included, and yet another haunting novella by Robert W. Chambers, as well as a long-forgotten tale by the great George Macdonald—a tale so utterly obscure that I sometimes wonder if anyone in the world ever really noticed it before.
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