New Worlds for Old

For the 1908 study of socialism by H.G. Wells, see New Worlds for Old (H. G. Wells). For the 1963 science fiction anthology edited by August Derleth, see New Worlds for Old (Derleth).

New Worlds for Old
Cover of New Worlds for Old
Author(s)	edited by Lin Carter
Cover artist	David Johnston
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Ballantine Adult Fantasy series
Genre(s)	Fantasy short stories
Publisher	Ballantine Books
Publication date	1971
Media type	Print (Paperback)
ISBN	ISBN 0-345-02365-X
Preceded by	Golden Cities, Far
Followed by	The Spawn of Cthulhu

New Worlds for Old is an anthology of fantasy short stories, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books in September 1971 as the thirty-fifth volume of its celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. It was the fourth such anthology assembled by Carter for the series.

The book collects fifteen fantasy tales and poems by various authors, with an overall introduction and notes by Carter. The pieces range in date from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. The collection is a companion volume to Carter's earlier The Young Magicians (1969), which also collects modern fantasies.

Contents

• "Introduction: Makers of Worlds" (Lin Carter)
• "Zulkaïs and Kalilah" (William Beckford; translated by Clark Ashton Smith^[1])
• "Silence: a Fable" (Edgar Allan Poe)
• "The Romance of Photgen and Nycteris" (George MacDonald)
• "The Sphinx" (poem) (Oscar Wilde)
• "The Fall of Babbulkund" (Lord Dunsany)
• "The Green Meadow" (H. P. Lovecraft; with Elizabeth Berkeley)
• "The Feast in the House of the Worm" (Gary Myers)
• "Zingazar" (Lin Carter)
• "A Wine of Wizardry" (poem) (George Sterling)
• "The Garden of Fear" (Robert E. Howard)
• "Jirel Meets Magic" (C. L. Moore)
• "Duar the Accursed" (Clifford Ball)
• "The Hashish Eater, or, the Apocalypse of Evil" (poem) (Clark Ashton Smith)
• "The Party at Lady Cusp-Canine's" (Mervyn Peake)
• "The Sword of Power (from Khymyrium)" (Lin Carter)

See also

• Lin Carter

Notes

1. ^ Although Carter calls this a translation it is really a posthumous collaboration, with Smith contributing an ending to the standard English translation of Beckford's unfinished episode. See Clark Ashton Smith, "The Third Episode of Vathek", The Abominations of Yondo, p. 177.

References

• New Worlds for Old publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database