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1970 anthology of fantasy short stories edited by L. Sprague de Camp For another anthology, see Warlocks and Warriors (Mayflower).

Warlocks and Warriors
Dust-jacket illustration of the first edition.
Editor	L. Sprague de Camp
Cover artist	Jim Steranko
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Putnam
Publication date	1970
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	255
Preceded by	The Fantastic Swordsmen

Warlocks and Warriors is an anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by American writer L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published in hardcover by Putnam in 1970, and in paperback by Berkley Books in 1971. It was the fourth such anthology assembled by de Camp, following his earlier Swords and Sorcery (1963), The Spell of Seven (1965), and The Fantastic Swordsmen (1967).

Summary

The book collects ten sword and sorcery tales by various authors, with an overall introduction by de Camp. As with the previous volume in the anthology series, The Fantastic Swordsmen, most of the stories are accompanied by maps illustrating their settings.

Contents

"Introduction" (L. Sprague de Camp)
"Turutal" (Ray Capella)
"The Gods of Niom Parma" (Lin Carter)
"The Hills of the Dead" (Robert E. Howard)
"Thunder in the Dawn" (Henry Kuttner)
"Thieves' House" (Fritz Leiber)
"Black God's Kiss" (C. L. Moore)
"Chu-Bu and Sheemish" (Lord Dunsany)
"The Master of the Crabs" (Clark Ashton Smith)
"The Valley of the Spiders" (H. G. Wells)
"The Bells of Shoredan" (Roger Zelazny)

Notes

Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. p. 116.
^ Warlocks and Warriors title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

External links

"Forgotten Stories of Fantastic Sword-fighters: L. Sprague de Camp’s (ed.) Warlocks and Warriors" - a book review by Andy Beau

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L. Sprague de Camp

Viagens
Interplanetarias

Krishna	"Finished" (1949) The Queen of Zamba (1949) The Hand of Zei (1950) "Perpetual Motion" (1950) "Calories" (1951) The Virgin of Zesh (1953) The Tower of Zanid (1958) The Hostage of Zir (1977) The Prisoner of Zhamanak (1982) The Bones of Zora (1983) The Swords of Zinjaban (1991)
Kukulkan	The Stones of Nomuru (1988) The Venom Trees of Sunga (1992)
Other	"The Animal-Cracker Plot" (1949) "The Colorful Character" (1949) "Git Along!" (1950) "The Inspector's Teeth" (1950) "Summer Wear" (1950) The Continent Makers (1951) "The Galton Whistle" (1951) Rogue Queen (1951)

Neo-Napolitanian

The Incorporated Knight (1987)
The Pixilated Peeress (1991)

Novels

Short stories

"Black Sphinx of Nebthu" (1973)
"The Treasure of Tranicos" (1953)
"Black Tears" (1968)
"The Blood-Stained God" (1955)
"The Castle of Terror" (1969)
"The City of Skulls" (1967)
"The Curse of the Monolith" (1968)
"Drums of Tombalku" (1966)
The Flame Knife (1955/81)
"The Frost Giant's Daughter" Conan (1953)
"The Gem in the Tower" (1978)
"The God in the Bowl" (1952)
"The Hall of the Dead" (1967)
"Hawks Over Shem" (1955)
"The Ivory Goddess" (1978)
"The Lair of the Ice Worm" (1969)
"Legions of the Dead" (1978)
"Moon of Blood" (1978)
"The People of the Summit" (1970/78)
"Red Moon of Zembabwei" (1974)
"The Road of the Eagles" (1955)
"Shadows in the Dark" (1978)
"Shadows in the Skull" (1975)
"The Snout in the Dark" (1969)
"The Star of Khorala" (1978)
"The Thing in the Crypt" (1967)
"The Witch of the Mists" (1972)
"Wolves Beyond the Border" (1967)

Other
speculative
fiction

Novels

The Carnelian Cube (1948)
Genus Homo (1950)
The Glory That Was (1960)
The Great Fetish (1978)
Land of Unreason (1942)
Lest Darkness Fall (1941)
None but Lucifer (1939)
Solomon's Stone (1942)

Short stories

"Aristotle and the Gun" (1958)
"The Blue Giraffe" (1939)
"The Command" (1938)
"The Contraband Cow" (1942)
"Cornzan the Mighty" (1955)
"Divide and Rule" (1939)
"The Egg" (1956)
"Employment" (1939)
"The Gnarly Man" (1939)
"The Guided Man" (1952)
"A Gun for Dinosaur" (1956)
"The Hardwood Pile" (1940)
"The Hibited Man" (1949)
"Hyperpilosity" (1938)
"In-Group" (1952)
"Internal Combustion" (1956)
"The Isolinguals" (1937)
"Judgment Day" (1955)
"Let's Have Fun" (1957)
"Living Fossil" (1939)
"The Merman" (1938)
"Nothing in the Rules" (1939)
"The Reluctant Shaman" (1947)
"The Saxon Pretender" (1952)
"The Space Clause" (1952)
"The Stolen Dormouse" (1941)
"Throwback" (1949)
"The Wheels of If" (1940)

Historical fiction

Fiction edited

The Wolf Leader (1950)
Swords and Sorcery (1963)
The Spell of Seven (1965)
Conan the Warrior (1967)
The Fantastic Swordsmen (1967)
Conan the Conqueror (1967)
Warlocks and Warriors (1970)
3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1972)
Tales Beyond Time (1973)

Nonfiction

Science and
history

Inventions and Their Management (1937)
The Evolution of Naval Weapons (1947)
Antarctic Conquest (1949)
Engines (1959)
The Heroic Age of American Invention (1961)
Man and Power (1961)
Energy and Power (1962)
The Ancient Engineers (1963)
Ancient Ruins and Archaeology (1964)
Elephant (1964)
Spirits, Stars, and Spells (1966)
The Story of Science in America (1967)
The Day of the Dinosaur (1968)
The Great Monkey Trial (1968)
Darwin and His Great Discovery (1972)
Great Cities of the Ancient World (1972)
The Ragged Edge of Science (1980)
The Fringe of the Unknown (1983)
The Ape-Man Within (1995)
Rubber Dinosaurs and Wooden Elephants (1996)

Lit crit and
biography

Blond Barbarians and Noble Savages (1975)
The Conan Reader (1968)
Dark Valley Destiny (1983)
Lands Beyond (1952)
Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers (1976)
Lost Continents (1954)
Lovecraft: A Biography (1975)
The Miscast Barbarian (1975)
Science-Fiction Handbook (1953/75)
Time and Chance (1996)

Nonfiction edited

Poetry

Collections

The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens (1953)
The Virgin of Zesh & The Tower of Zanid (1983)
The Incomplete Enchanter (1941)
Wall of Serpents (1960)
The Compleat Enchanter (1975)
The Complete Compleat Enchanter (1989)
The Enchanter Reborn (1992)
The Exotic Enchanter (1995)
The Mathematics of Magic (2007)
The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales (1953)
The Reluctant King (1985)
Conan (1967)
The Conan Chronicles (1989)
The Conan Chronicles 2 (1990)
Conan of Aquilonia (1977)
Conan of Cimmeria (1969)
Conan the Adventurer (1966)
Conan the Avenger (1968)
Conan the Freebooter (1968)
Conan the Swordsman (1978)
Conan the Usurper (1967)
Conan the Wanderer (1968)
Sagas of Conan (2004)
Tales of Conan (1955)
The Treasure of Tranicos (1980)
Aristotle and the Gun (2002)
The Best of L. Sprague de Camp (1978)
Divide and Rule (1948)
Footprints on Sand (1981)
A Gun for Dinosaur (1963)
The Purple Pterodactyls (1980)
The Reluctant Shaman (1970)
Rivers of Time (1993)
Scribblings (1972)
Sprague de Camp's New Anthology (1953)
Tales from Gavagan's Bar (1953/78)
The Undesired Princess (1951)
The Virgin & the Wheels (1976)
The Wheels of If (1948)
Years in the Making (2005)

About de Camp

GURPS Planet Krishna (1997)
The Enchanter Completed (2005)

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