Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy I

Cover of the first edition.
Editor	Lin Carter
Cover artist	Gervasio Gallardo
Language	English
Series	Ballantine Adult Fantasy series
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Ballantine Books
Publication date	1972
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (paperback)
Preceded by	Discoveries in Fantasy
Followed by	Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II

Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy I is an anthology of fantasy novellas, edited by American writer Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books in September, 1972^[1] as the fifty-second volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series.^[2] It was the eighth such anthology assembled by Carter for the series.^[1]

Summary

The book collects four novellas by five fantasy authors, with an overall introduction and notes by Carter. It is a companion volume to Carter's subsequent collection Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II (1973).^[1][2]

Contents

• "Introduction" (Lin Carter)
• "The Wall of Serpents" (Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp)
• "The Kingdom of the Dwarfs" (Anatole France)
• "The Maker of Moons" (Robert W. Chambers)
• "The Hollow Land" (William Morris)

Reception

The book was reviewed by Everett F. Bleiler in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1983.^[1]

Notes

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