The Emperor of the Ancient Word and Other Fantastic Stories

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The Emperor of the Ancient Word
and Other Fantastic Stories
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Cover of The Emperor of the Ancient Word
and Other Fantastic Stories
Author Darrell Schweitzer
Cover artist Jason Van Hollander
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Fantasy
Publisher Borgo Press/Wildside Press
Publication date
2013
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages229
ISBN 978-1-4794-0105-5

The Emperor of the Ancient Word and Other Fantastic Stories is a collection of fantasy short stories by American writer Darrell Schweitzer. It was first published as a trade paperback by Wildside Press in May 2013, with an ebook edition following in October of the same year. [1]

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Summary

The collection consists of seventeen stories of the author, together with an introductory note by the author. It includes two tales dealing with the titular Emperor of the Ancient Word and one of Schweitzer's tales about the legendary madman Tom O'Bedlam. The pieces were originally published from 2000-2011 in various speculative fiction magazines and anthologies. Schweitzer characterizes them in his introductory note as "some of my best stories from the past ten years or so."

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