Cover art from the first paperback edition
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Author | Lin Carter (editor) |
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Cover artist |
Ron Miller (hardcover) Richard Corben (paperback) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | Flashing Swords! |
Genre | Fantasy short stories |
Publisher | Nelson Doubleday |
Publication date
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1981 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
Pages | viii, 184 p. |
Preceded by | Flashing Swords! #4: Barbarians and Black Magicians |
Flashing Swords! #5: Demons and Daggers is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in hardcover by Nelson Doubleday in December 1981 as a selection in its Science Fiction Book Club, and in paperback by Dell Books simultaneously.
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.