Swordsmen and Supermen

Swordsmen and Supermen is an American anonymously edited anthology of fantasy stories by Robert E. Howard and others, with a cover by Virgil Finlay. It was first published in paperback by Centaur Press in February 1972.^[1] The anonymous editor has been identified by bibliographers Jack L. Chalker and Mark Owings and by critic Roger C. Schlobin as the publisher, Donald M. Grant.^[1][2]

Swordsmen and Supermen

Cover of Swordsmen and Supermen
Author	Robert E. Howard and others
Cover artist	Virgil Finlay
Language	English
Series	Time-Lost series
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Centaur Press
Publication date	1972
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	120
ISBN	0-87818-007-9
OCLC	12820329

The book collects five novelettes and short stories by various fantasy authors, with a general introductory note and introductory notes on the authors and stories prefacing each story. The stories are "swashbuckling fantastic yarns" both from the pulp era of the 1920s and 1930s and the period in which the book was published.

Contents

• "Meet Cap'n Kidd" (Robert E. Howard)
• "The Death of a Hero" (Jean d'Esme)
• "Wings of Y'vrn" (Darrel Crombie)
• "The Slave of Marathon" (Arthur D. Howden Smith)
• "How Sargoth Lay Siege to Zaremm" (Lin Carter)

Reception

The anthology has been characterized by critic Roger C. Schlobin as "an outstanding group of five new and reprinted examples of sword and sorcery." He considers "the Crombie tale, concerning a questing shape-changer ... a particular treat."^[2]