The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack

The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack: 25 Fantastic Tales is a collection of fantasy short stories written by Darrell Schweitzer. It was first published as an e-book by Wildside Press on December 3, 2013 in that publisher's series of "Megapack" e-book anthologies.^[1] Some online citations of the work cite an alternative subtitle, "25 Weird Tales of Fantasy and Horror," which does not actually appear on the work, and erroneously state that the author's short story "Pennies From Hell" is included in the contents.^[2]

The collection consists of twenty-five stories of the author. The pieces were originally published from 1982-2011 in various speculative fiction magazines and anthologies.

Contents

• "A Note From the Publisher" (John Betancourt)
• "Transients" (from Amazing Stories v. 61, no. 5, Jan. 1987)
• "A Lantern Maker of Ai Hanlo" (from Amazing Stories v. 58, no. 2, Jul. 1984)
• "The Story of a Dadar" (from Amazing Science Fiction Stories v. 56, no. 1, Jun. 1982)
• "Refugees from an Imaginary Country" (from Interzone no. 116, Feb. 1997)
• "The Sorcerer Evoragdou" (from The Ultimate Witch, Oct. 1993)
• "The Mysteries of the Faceless King" (from Weird Tales v. 50, no. 1, Spr. 1988)
• "King Yvorian's Wager" (from Weird Tales v. 51, no. 2, Win. 1989/1990)
• "The Spirit of the Back Stairs" (from Fear no. 28, Apr. 1991)
• "The Outside Man" (from Narrow Houses, Dec. 1992)
• "Savages" (from Masques IV, Oct. 1991)
• "On the Last Night of the Festival of the Dead" (from Interzone no. 90, Dec. 1994)
• "Vandibar Nasha in the College of Shadows" (from Adventures of Sword and Sorcery no. 7, Sep. 2000)
• "One of the Secret Masters" (from Dark Destiny, Dec. 1994)
• "Running to Camelot" (from Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine no. 40, Sum. 1998)
• "Kvetchula" (from Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine no. 36, Sum. 1997)
• "Kvetchula's Daughter" (from Full Moon City, 2010)
• "How It Ended" (from Realms of Fantasy, August 2002)
• "The Most Beautiful Dead Woman in the World" (from Interzone no. 189, May/June 2003)
• "The Eater of Hours" (from Inhuman no. 4, Sum. 2009)
• "Fighting the Zeppelin Gang" (from Postscripts no. 8, Autumn 2006)
• "The Messenger" (from Weird Tales v. 62, no. 5, November/December 2007)
• "The Last Heretic" (from Postscripts 24/25, 2011)
• "The Witch of the World's End" (from 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, 1995)
• "Howling in the Dark" (from Black Wings: Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, 2010)
• "Peeling It Off" (from Borderlands, Oct. 1990)

References