Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Storytellers: A Guided Ramble into Sword and Sorcery Fiction by David Drake -- The Tower of the Elephant by Robert E. Howard -- Black God's Kiss by C. L. Moore -- The Unholy Grail by Fritz Leiber -- The Tale of Hauk by Poul Anderson -- The Caravan of Forgotten Dreams by Michael Moorcock -- The Adventuress by Joanna Russ -- Gimmile's Songs by Charles R. Saunders -- Undertow by Karl Edward Wagner -- The Stages of the God by Ramsey Campbell (writing as Montgomery Comfort) -- The Barrow Troll by David Drake -- Soldier of an Empire Unacquainted with Defeat by Glen Cook -- Epistle from Lebanoi by Michael Shea -- Become a Warrior by Jane Yolen -- The Red Guild by Rachel Pollack -- Six from Atlantis by Gene Wolfe -- The Sea Troll's Daughter by Caitlín R. Kiernan -- The Coral Heart by Jeffrey Ford -- Path of the Dragon by George R. R. Martin -- The Year of the Three Monarchs by Michael Swanwick.