“The Rime of the Cosmic Mariner,” John Shirley ( Lovecraft Alive!) “Grave Goods,” Priya Sharma ( Albedo One #6) “Whose Drowned Face Sleeps,” An Owomoyela & Rachael Swirsky ( Nightmare # 46/ What the Is That?) “Spinning Silver,” Naomi Novik ( The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales) “My Body, Herself,” Carmen Maria Machado ( Uncanny #12) “The Jaws That Bite, The Claws That Catch,” Seanan McGuire ( Lightspeed #72) “Bright Crown of Joy,” Livia Llewellyn ( Children of Lovecraft) “Meet Me at the Frost Fair,” Alison Littlewood ( A Midwinter Entertainment) The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com) “The Finest, Fullest Flowering,” Marc Laidlaw ( Nightmare #45) “Postcards from Natalie,” Carrie Laben ( The Dark #14) Ten),” Caitlin Kiernan ( Sirenia Digest #130) “The Line Between the Devil’s Teeth (Murder Ballad No. “The Games We Play,” Cassandra Khaw ( Clockwork Phoenix 5) “Birdfather,” Stephen Graham Jones ( Black Static #51) “The Sound of Salt and Sea,” Kat Howard ( Uncanny #10) “Mommy’s Little Man,” Brian Hodge ( DarkFuse, October) Hannett ( Postscripts 36/37: The Dragons of the Night) “The Iron Man,” Max Gladstone ( Grimm Future) “As Cymbals Clash,” Cate Gardner ( The Dark #19)

“The Blameless,”Jeffrey Ford ( The Natural History of Hell) “Grave Goods,” Gemma Files ( Autumn Cthulhu) “Season of Glass and Iron,” Amal El-Mohtar ( The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales) “A Dying of the Light,” Rachel Caine ( The Gods of H.P. “Wish You Were Here,” Nadia Bulkin ( Nightmare # 49) “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies,” Brooke Bolander ( Uncanny #13) “Lullaby for a Lost World,” Aliette de Bodard ( Tor.com 06/16) The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017Ĭontents (in alphabetical order by author’s last name)

Scott Lynch, “The Effigy Engine: A Tale of the Red Hats”.Delany, “The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers” John Balestra, “The Swords of Her Heart” (original).Katherine Kurtz, “Swords Against the Marluk”.Michael Moorcock, “While the Gods Laugh”.Paula Guran, Introduction: “Knowledge Takes Precedence Over Death”

Swords Against Darkness: an epic anthology of short stories and novellas from classic to modern, each tale a memorable vision from masters of mistresses of heroic fantasy past and present! From its swashbuckling beginnings of good versus evil battles to clashes of more nuanced principles set in complex settings to havoc shaped by grittier perspectives, ambiguous morality, deep history, and expansive worldbuilding―readers continue to be thrilled by the exploits of great warriors and mighty mages. Tales of sword and sorcery at their best offer keen wit, ingenious perception, freewheeling imagination, and canny invention.

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