The Thief of Forthe and Other Stories
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 Cover of first edition | |
| Author | Clifford Ball |
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| Cover artist | Virgil Finlay |
| Language | English |
| Genre | fantasy |
| Publisher | DMR Books |
Publication date | 2018 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | print (paperback), ebook |
| Pages | 206 |
| ISBN | 978-0-9909900-4-8 |
The Thief of Forthe and Other Stories is a collection of sword and sorcery and other fantasy short stories by American writer Clifford Ball. It was first published in paperback and ebook by DMR Books in March 2018.[1]
The book collects four novelettes and two short stories by the author, together with an introduction by the publisher, D. M. Ritzlin. [1] It gathers together all of Ball's published fiction, originally published in the 1930s and 1940s in Weird Tales, for the first time. The first story, featuring the barbarian adventurer Duar, and the second and third, featuring Rald the thief, were among the earliest sword and sorcery stories published after the pioneering work of Robert E. Howard, and were written in homage to him. The pieces following feature a modern-day quest for the legendary island of Circe, a fantastic detective yarn, and a traditional horror story.[2]