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 as the fifty-second volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series.Carter, Lin. "Bibliography II: The Adult Fantasy Series," in Imaginary Worlds: the Art of Fantasy, Ballantine Books, 1973. It was the eighth such anthology assembled by Carter for the series.
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).
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.
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