Short Fiction Collected
L. Sprague de Camp
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Title Page
About L. Sprague de Camp
Pseudonyms
“Author, Author”
“Those People Who Make Other Worlds”
“Author! Author!”
“Jay Kay Klein’s Biolog”
Bibliography: Novels
Bibliography: Novelizations
Bibliography: Magazine-published Novels
Bibliography: Serials
Bibliography: Chapbooks
Bibliography: Collections
Bibliography: Omnibus
Bibliography: Nonfiction
Short Fiction Bibliography: chronological
Short Fiction Bibliography: alphabetical
Fiction Series
Epigraph
1937
The Isolinguals
1938
Hyperpilosity
The Command
The Merman
1939
The Hairless Ones Come
The Incorrigible
Living Fossil
Ananias
Divide and Rule! (Part I)
Divide and Rule! (Part II)
Employment
The Gnarly Man
Nothing in the Rules
The Blue Giraffe
None But Lucifer
Lest Darkness Fall
1940
The Emancipated
Retirement
Juice
The Roaring Trumpet
The Mathematics of Magic
The Hardwood Pile
Inverse Variations
The Warrior Race
The Wheels of If
Asokore Power
The Exalted
1941
The Best-Laid Scheme
Genus Homo
The Castle of Iron
The Stolen Dormouse (Part One)
The Stolen Dormouse (Conclusion)
Invaders from Nowhere
The Land of Unreason
The Last Drop
Mr. Arson
1942
The Undesired Princess
Some Curious Effects of Time Travel
Solomon’s Stone
The Contraband Cow
The Anecdote of the Negative Wugug
The Wisdom of the East
1943
The Anecdote of the Movable Ears
1946
The Ghosts of Melvin Pye
1947
The Reluctant Shaman
1949
Throwback
The Animal-Cracker Plot
The Queen of Zamba (First of Two Parts)
The Queen of Zamba (Conclusion)
The Hibited Man
Finished
The Colorful Character
1950
Gavagan’s Bar
The Inspector’s Teeth
Summer Wear
Git Along!
Wide-Open Planet
The Hand of Zei (Part One of Four Parts)
The Hand of Zei (Part Two of Four Parts)
The Better Mousetrap
The Hand of Zei (Third of Four Parts)
1951
The Hand of Zei (Conclusion)
Getaway on Krishna
The Continent Makers
More than Skin Deep
The Eye of Tandyla
Ultrasonic God
Beasts of Bourbon
The Owl and the Ape
When the Night Wind Howls
The Tritonian Ring
1952
The Blunderer
The Rape of the Lock
Rogue Princess
Gavagan’s Bar (revised version)
The Glory that Was
In-Group
The Soaring Statue
The Ancestral Amethyst
The Space Clause
Where to, Please?
The Black Ball
The Guided Man
The Ordeal of Professor Klein
Proposal
1953
The Galton Whistle
The Treasure of Tranicos
The Phoenix on the Sword
The Scarlet Citadel
Corpus Delectable
The Love Nest
The Stone of the Sages
The Palimpsest of St. Augustine
More than Skin Deep (revised version)
No Forwarding Address
My Brother’s Keeper
A Dime Brings You Success
All that Glitters
Here, Putzi!
Gin Comes in Bottles
The Eve of St. John
The Green Thumb
The Virgin of Zesh
The Black Stranger
Caveat Emptor
The Walls of Serpents
The Untimely Toper
The Frost Giant’s Daughter
One Man’s Meat
The Stronger Spell
The Hungry Hercynian
1954
The Green Magician
The Weissenbroch Spectacles
Shadows in Zamboula
The Devil in Iron
1955
The Bloodstained God
The Road of the Eagles
The Flame Knife
Lament by a Maker
Possession
Property of Venus
Judgment Day
Hawks Over Shem
Cornzan the Mighty
1956
Internal Combustion
Impractical Joke
New Arcadia
Wyvernhold
A Gun for Dinosaur
The Egg
1957
A Thing of Custom
All the Latest Improvements
Let’s Have Fun
Conan the Victorious
1958
Aristotle and the Gun
The Tower of Zanid (Beginning a Four-Part Novel)
The Tower of Zanid (Second of Four Parts)
The Tower of Zanid (Third of Four Parts)
The Tower of Zanid (Last of Four Parts)
Ka the Appalling
1959
Ward of the Argonaut
Bell, Book & Candle
1963
Gratitude
Transposition
1964
Tikal
Heldendämmerung
1965
Nabonidus
1966
Drums of Tombalku
The Gods
1967
The Thing in the Crypt
The Hand of Nergal
The City of Skulls
Wolves Beyond the Border
The Hall of the Dead
Meroê
Where Are the Worlds of Yesteryear?
To R.E.H
Tintagel
The Tusk
Kaziranga, Assam
Time
Nahr Al-Kalb
1968
Black Tears
The Dragon-Kings
The Ghost
Acrophobia
Night
Conan and the Cenotaph
Ghost Ships
The Jungle Vine
New Year’s Eve in Baghdad
Faunas
1969
The Lair of the Ice Worm
The Castle of Terror
The Snout in the Dark
A Brook in Vermont
Sirrush
Ghosts
1970
Creation
Ziggurat
Reward of Virtue
Ruins
The Great Pyramid of Giza
The Little Lion of Font-de-Gaume
Patnâ
A Tale of Two John Carters
The Ogre
Progress in Baghdad
The Sorcerers
A Skald’s Lament
Old Heroes
Envy
Warriors
Où Sont les Planètes d'Antan?
Heroes
Tiger in the Rain
1971
Mother and Son
1972
Beholder
Carnac
Teotihuacán
Disillusion
Delray Beach, Florida
The Home of the Gods
Bourzi
Jewels
African Night
The Irish
The Iron Pillar of Delhi
The Olmec
The Hippopotamus
The Lizards of Tula
The Mantis
The Elephant
The Newt
Jorian’s Jingles: On Battle
Jorian’s Jingles: On a Shrew
Jorian’s Jingles: On Executioners
Jorian’s Jingles: On Polygamy
Jorian’s Jingles: On Piracy
Jorian’s Jingles: On His Homeland
Jorian’s Jingles: On Himself
Jorian’s Jingles: On Magic
Jorian’s Jingles: On Death
Thoth-Amon’s Complaint
A Glass of Goblanti
Xeroxing the Necronomicon
To My Library
Preferences
Bear On a Bicycle
The Old-Fashioned Lover
The Trap
The Reaper
A Night Club in Cairo
Art
Farewell to Adam
Glamour
The Saviors
Leaves
The Other Baghdad
Thoth-Amon’s Complaint
Xeroxing the Necronomicon
The Lusts of Professor Adams
Psyche
The Witch of the Mists
The Fallible Fiend (First of Two Parts)
1973
Yuggoth Comes to Providence
The Fallible Fiend (Second of Two Parts)
The Ghost of H.P.L
Black Sphinx of Nebthu
The Rug and the Bull
The Emperor’s Fan
1974
Happiness
Magus Imperitus
Red Moon of Zembabwei
Houses on Stalks
The Dragon-Slayers
1975
Fiction
Shadows in the Skull
The Lamp
The Octopus
Tars Tarkas & I
1976
The Barbarian
Shadows Over Squamous
The Little Green Men
Gratuity
My Uglies
A Caution
Far Babylon
The Virgin
Balsamo’s Mirror
Algy
The Purple Pterodactyls
Two Yards of Dragon
The Coronet
1977
Flying Fish
The Figurine
Tiki
The Menhir
Dead Man’s Chest
The Stone of the Witch-Queen
The Bear Who Saved the World
Darius
Progress
Heretic in a Balloon
Eudoric’s Unicorn
Spider Love
Priapus
United Imp
1978
The Witches of Manhattan
“The Ameba”
The Huns
The Green Magician (Part 1)
There’d Be Thousands in It
Conan the Limmerian
The Green Magician (Part 2)
Legions of the Dead
The People of the Summit
Shadows in the Dark
The Star of Khorala
The Gem in the Tower
The Ivory Goddess
Moon of Blood
The Enchanted Isles
The Yellow Man
1979
A Sending of Serpents
1981
Tehuantepec
The Dome of the Rock
Wayfarers
The Megaliths of Avebury
Babylon
The Bats of Florence
Atavism
The Opossum
The Galápagos Marine Iguana
The Fossils
Souls
Spring
Spells
My Carrack
Ripples
Merlin
Ivan Vasilevitch
1990
Sir Harold and the Gnome King
1992
The Round-Eyed Barbarians
The Big Splash
The Synthetic Barbarian
Crocamander Quest
The Satanic Illusion
1993
Pliocene Romance
The Mislaid Mastodon
The Cayuse
Miocene Romance
The Honeymoon Dragon
1994
None But Lucifer (Installment 1)
None But Lucifer (Installment 2)
None But Lucifer (Conclusion)
1995
Sir Harold Of Zodanga
1996
Captain Leopard
2014
Lest Darkness Fall (Part 1)
Lest Darkness Fall (Part 2)
Lest Darkness Fall (Part 3)
Lest Darkness Fall (Part 4)
Lest Darkness Fall (Conclusion)