Flashing Swords, No. 3

Dell Books, mass market paperback, 1976. The book collects five heroic fantasy novelettes by members of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a somewhat informal literary group of fantasy authors active from the 1960s to the 1980s, of which Carter was also a member and guiding force, together with a general introduction and introductions to the individual stories by the editor. STORIES: "Two Yards of Dragon" (Eudoric Dambertson) by L. Sprague de Camp; "The Frost Monstreme" (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) by Fritz Leiber; "Spider Silk" (Witch World) by Andre Norton; "The Curious Custom of the Turjan Seraad" (Amalrik the Mangod) by Lin Carter; "Caravan to Illiel" by Avram Davidson.