Lin Carter's Simrana Cycle


Lin Carter's Simrana Cycle is a collection of fantasy short stories by American writer Lin Carter, selected and edited by Robert M. Price. It was first published in hardcover, trade paperback and ebook by Celaeno Press in February 2018.

Summary

The collection gathers together all twelve of Carter's tales set in his Lord Dunsany-inspired "dreamworld" of Simrana, some previously published and a few previously unpublished, including two newly completed by Robert M. Price and Glynn Owen Barrass. One story, previously published in two versions, "The Gods of Neol Shendis" and "The Gods of Nion Parma," is included in both forms. Appended are nine "Dunsanian" stories written as tributes to Carter and Simrana by Darrell Schweitzer, Gary Myers, Adrian Cole, Charles Garofalo, and Robert M. Price, along with some of the original stories that inspired Carter, eight by Lord Dunsany himself and one by Henry Kuttner.

Contents

  • "Introduction"
  • "The Gods of Niom Parma"
  • "The Whelming of Oom"
  • "Zingazar"
  • "How Sargoth Lay Siege to Zaremm"
  • "The Laughter of Han"
  • "The Benevolence of Yib"
  • "How Ghuth Would Have Hunted the Silth"
  • "The Thievery of Yish"
  • "How Her Doom Came Down at Last on Adrazoon"
  • "How Jal Set Forth on his Journeying"
  • "The Gods of Neol Shendis"
  • "How Shand Became King of Thieves"
  • "Caolin the Conjurer "
  • "The Philosopher Thief"
  • "The Sorcerer’s Satchel"
  • "An Unfamiliar Familiar"
  • "The Summoning of a Genie in Error"
  • "The Sad but Instructive Fable of Mangroth’s Tomes"
  • "How Frindolf Got his Fill of Revenge"
  • "The Devil’s Mine"
  • "The Good Simranatan"
  • "How Thongor Conquered Zaremm"
  • "The River"
  • "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth"
  • "The Sword of Welleran"
  • "Carcassonne"
  • "How Nuth Would Have Practiced His Art Upon the Gnoles"
  • "The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller, and of the Doom That Befell Him"
  • "In Zaccarath"
  • "How the Enemy Came to Thlunrana"
  • "The Jest of Droom Avista"