About the Book
A collection of stories.
Contents:
- Lost Worlds of Time (introduction)
- The Scroll of Morloc (with Clark Ashton Smith)
- The Stairs in the Crypt (with Clark Ashton Smith)
- The Thing in the Pit
- Thieves of Zangabal
- Keeper of the Emerald Flame
- Riders Beyond the Sunrise (with Robert E. Howard)
- The Twelve Wizards of Ong
- The Seal of Zaon Sathla
- Lost Worlds to Come (afterword)
"Of all the worlds of fantasy literature, I seem most deeply fascinated
by the lost lands of legend – by those far and mysterious realms and
continents presumed by dreamers to have flourished in remote,
prehistoric ages.
"I think it is the unsolved mystery of these
'evening isles fantastical' that teases my curiosity and captivates my
imagination. Did the oceans drink down the shining cities of Atlantis?
Did mighty Mu founder beneath the waves before 'history began? Was
there ever a lost polar paradise of Hyperborea? Did the Seven Isles of
Antillia ever exist...?
"Since we cannot look to science or
history or archeology for the age-lost annals of Atlantis or Ultima
Thule or Lemuria, we must turn to fantasy fiction to satisfy our thirst
for their marvels..."
Lin Carter's LOST WORLDS is truly a unique and marvel-haunted tour through magic lands no longer known to man.
