Heroes and Hobgoblins
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 Dust-jacket illustration by Tim Kirk for Heroes and Hobgoblins |
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| Author | L. Sprague de Camp |
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| Illustrator | Tim Kirk |
| Cover artist | Tim Kirk |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | poetry |
| Publisher | Donald M. Grant |
| Released | 1981 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 158 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 093798633X |
Heroes and Hobgoblins is a 1981 collection of poetry by science fiction and fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp, illustrated by Tim Kirk. It was published by Donald M. Grant.
The book contains most of the poems from de Camp's earlier collections, Demons and Dinosaurs and Phantoms and Fancies, though the arrangement is different in the current collection, along with a substantial number of additional poems.
[edit] Contents
- "Foreword"
- "Tehuantepec"
- "The Olmec"
- "Tintagel"
- "Bourzi"
- "A Night Club in Cairo"
- "Meroê"
- "The Jungle Vine"
- "The Dome of the Rock"
- "Nahr al-Kalb"
- "New Year's Eve in Baghdad"
- "Jewels"
- "The Home of the Gods"
- "Patnâ"
- "The Iron Pillar of Delhi"
- "Disillusion"
- "Wayfarers"
- "Ruins"
- "Tikal"
- "Teotihuacán"
- "The Little Lion of Font-de-Gaume"
- "Carnac"
- "The Megaliths of Avebury"
- "The Great Pyramid"
- "Babylon"
- "Sirush"
- "Ziggurat"
- "Faunas"
- "The Elephant"
- "The Indian Rhinoceros"
- "The Hippopotamus"
- "Tiger in the Rain"
- "The Bats of Florence"
- "Atavism"
- "The Opossum"
- "The Enchanted Isles"
- "A Brook in Vermont"
- "The Dragon-Kings"
- "The Lizards of Tula"
- "The Galápagos Marine Iguana"
- "The Newt"
- "Flying Fish"
- "The Mantis"
- "The Octopus"
- "The Ameba"
- "The Tusk"
- "The Fossils"
- "Fiction"
- "A Skald's Lament"
- "Creation"
- "The Gods"
- "Old Heroes"
- "Où Sont les Planètes d'Antan?"
- "A Tale of Two John Carters"
- "Houses on Stalks"
- "Tars Tarkas and I"
- "The Ghost of H.P.L."
- "Yuggoth Comes to Providence"
- "Magus Imperitus"
- "Shadows Over Squamous"
- "Xeroxing the Necromonicon"
- "Souls"
- "Conan the Limmerian"
- "Transposition"
- "Mother and Son"
- "Thoth-Amon's Complaint"
- "The Barbarian"
- "The Little Green Men"
- "Psyche"
- "Envy"
- "Warriors"
- "The Old-Fashioned Lover"
- "Spring"
- "Spells"
- "Happiness"
- "My Uglies"
- "My Carrack"
- "Ripples"
- "A Caution"
- "Preferences"
- "Bear on a Bicycle"
- "The Saviors"
- "The Trap"
- "The Reaper"
- "Art"
- "Ghosts"
- "Nabonidus"
- "Ghost Ships"
- "The Dragon-Slayers"
- "Gratuity"
- "Reward of Virtue"
- "Heldendämmerung"
- "Merlin"
- "Progress in Baghdad"
- "The Sorcerers"
- "The Other Baghdad"
- "Ivan Vasilevitch"
- "Leaves"
- "The Ogre"
- "A Glass of Goblanti"
- "Progress"
[edit] References
- Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller, 64-65.
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