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''The Emperor of the Ancient Word and Other Fantastic Stories'' is a collection of fantasy short stories written by Darrell Schweitzer. It was first published as a trade paperback by Wildside Press in May 2013. 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." ==Contents== * "Introductory Note" * "At the Top of the Black Stairs" (from ''Realms of Fantasy'', October 2005) * "The Hero Spoke" (from ''Realms of Fantasy'', August 2006) * "Tom O'Bedlam and the Mystery of Love" (from ''The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute Anthology for L. Sprague de Camp'', May 2005) * "The Fire Eggs" (from ''Interzone'' no. 153, March 2000) * "The Dead Kid" (from ''The Book of More Flesh'', Oct. 2002) * "Fighting the Zeppelin Gang" (from ''Postscripts'' no. 8, Autumn 2006) * "Sweep Me to My Revenge!" (from ''Talebones'' no. 35, Summer 2007) * "A Lost City of the Jungle" (from ''Astounding Hero Tales'', April 2007) * "Our Father Down Below" (from ''Cemetery Dance'' no. 35, 2001) * "The Messenger" (from ''Weird Tales'' v. 62, no. 5, November/December 2007) * "The Last of the Giants of Albion" (from ''Legends of the Pendragon'', September 2002) * "How It Ended" (from ''Realms of Fantasy'', August 2002) * "Thousand Year Warrior" (from ''Space and Time'' no. 105, Fall 2008) * "Into the Gathering Dark" (from ''Black Gate'' no. 15, Spring 2011) * "Secret Murders" (from ''Cemetery Dance'' no. 39, July 2002) * "Saxon Midnight" (from ''The Doom of Camelot'', August 2000) * "The Emperor of the Ancient Word" (from ''Space and Time'' no. 99, Spring 2005) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Emperor of the Ancient Word and Other Fantastic Stories」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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