Tales of Attluma — David C. Smith

Fascinating Tales from a Forgotten Era of Fantasy FictionA resurrected sorcerer grants the wishes of the desperate men who have returned him to life-but in ways none of them anticipates.A prince makes a bargain with a barbarian criminal to travel into a lost world of violence and sorcery to save the life of a woman who may already be dead.Marauders who attack a city devoted to a great goddess suffer her strange curse when she answers the pleas of her dying priestess.The last survivors of an ancient continent confront evil at every step as they march beneath skies of endless darkness to reach the haven they hope will lead them to safety.These tales and a dozen more by fantasy and adventure author David C. Smith appear in this unique collection. Out of print for more than 40 years, these stories were first published in the days of limited-circulation fanzines-the only avenue for new work created by the generation of writers who grew up in the shadow of the pulp magazines. The paperback reprints of those pulp stories in the late 1960s and early 1970s encouraged an entire generation of young writers to enlarge on that tradition of popular American storytelling. Now they are in print once more for a new generation of fantasy fiction enthusiasts.