Appendix N

Novel, 1961. A Danish resistance fighter in the Second World War is transported to a parallel world where Carolingian legend and Faerie are real, and where Law and Chaos are at war.

Novel, 1960. In 1345 an alien scout ship lands beside an English village. The local baron and his men capture it and are carried off to the aliens’ interstellar empire.

Novel, 1954. Viking-age England and Scandinavia. An elf lord steals a human infant and leaves a changeling in its place; the two grow up on opposite sides of a war between elves and trolls.

Novel, 1969. Two wizards, Prospero and Roger Bacon, travel through a pair of small kingdoms to find the source of a spreading sorcerous evil.

Novel, 1914. A mining heir and an inventor bore into the Earth and find Pellucidar, a hollow inner world of prehistoric animals ruled by a reptilian race. First of the Pellucidar series.

Novel, 1912. A Confederate veteran, John Carter, is transported to Mars, a dying desert world, where he is taken captive by four-armed green Martians. First of the Barsoom (Mars) series.

Novel, 1932. Carson Napier sets out by rocket for Mars and lands instead on cloud-covered Venus, called Amtor by its inhabitants. First of the Venus (Amtor) series.

Novel, 1974. Far-future Earth, its continents merged into Gondwane, where magic has replaced science. A giant of unknown origin, Ganelon Silvermane, is found wandering without memory. First of the Gondwane Epic (the “World’s End” series).

Novel, 1939. An American archaeologist is thrown back from 1938 Rome to 535 AD, in Ostrogothic Italy, and tries to use modern knowledge to prevent the Dark Ages.

Novel, 1973. A literal-minded demon is summoned from his own plane to serve a year’s indenture among the humans of the Novarian city-states. Part of the Novarian series.

Two novellas, 1941. A psychologist uses symbolic logic to send himself into parallel worlds built from myth and literature: the Norse world before Ragnarök, then Spenser’s Faerie Queene. First of the Harold Shea series.

Novel, 1948. An archaeologist who would rather be a poet sleeps with an ancient “dream stone” and moves through a series of alternate Americas, each organized around a different social ideal.

Novel, 1965. A middle-aged man blows a horn found in a basement and is carried to a pocket universe built as a stack of tiered lands, where his youth is restored. First of the World of Tiers series.

Three stories, 1969. Introduces Kothar, a northern barbarian mercenary, and his enchanted sword Frostfire. First of five Kothar books.

Novel, 1975. A warrior freed after a thousand years imprisoned in a small statue is drawn into a plot against a usurping king. First of four Kyrik books.

Novel, 1935–36; also published as The Hour of the Dragon. Conan, king of Aquilonia, loses his throne to conspirators aided by a sorcerer raised from the dead. Howard’s only Conan novel and the first Conan book (1950); Appendix N cites the Conan series.

Novel, 1973. Thousands of years after a nuclear catastrophe, a telepathic priest rides a mutant moose across a transformed North America in search of lost pre-war computer technology.

Stories, 1970. Separate origins of Fafhrd, a northern barbarian, and the Gray Mouser, a thief and former wizard’s apprentice, and their first meeting in the city of Lankhmar. First book of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series.

Novel, 1934; published in the UK as Creep, Shadow, Creep. A young man becomes entangled with a woman who may be the reincarnated sorceress Dahut of Ys, the drowned city of Breton legend.

Novel, 1919. A scientist and his companions follow a luminous being, the Shining One, from a Pacific ruin to a hidden civilization beneath the Earth’s surface.

Novel, 1932. An American finds a hidden, warm valley in Alaska whose people worship a tentacled being from another dimension and take him for the reincarnation of their ancient hero.

Five novellas, 1963. Introduces Elric of Melniboné, albino sorcerer-emperor of a declining race, and his soul-drinking runesword Stormbringer. First Elric book.

Four linked novellas, 1965. The concluding cycle of the Elric of Melniboné stories, in which the true nature of his sword is revealed.

Novel, 1967. Far-future Europe after a nuclear war. Dorian Hawkmoon, with a black jewel set in his skull, is sent by the Dark Empire of Granbretan against the Lord Guardian of the Kamarg. First of the Hawkmoon series (The History of the Runestaff).

Anthology, 1978. Thirteen sword and sorcery stories, a poem and an essay; contributors include Ramsey Campbell, Manly Wade Wellman and Poul Anderson. Third of five Swords Against Darkness volumes.

Novel, 1952. A parallel world where hereditary witchcraft is outlawed. A clerk in a revolutionary conspiracy is ordered to seduce a young witch to gain her mind-reading talisman.

Novel, 1973; later retitled Ardneh’s World. A far future after nuclear war, where magic and demons are real; the struggle between the West and the Empire of the East continues. Third of the Empire of the East series.

Five volumes, Night Shade Books, 2006–2010, edited by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger. Smith’s fiction in the order it was written, with restored texts. Not in Appendix N. But I have this collection and it is effing Rad!

Novel, 1969. A young man in Berkeley descends into an underground world to find his girlfriend, who has been abducted by its inhabitants.

Novel, 1963. After plagues have emptied the world, survivors live in vast underground shelters; the narrator is drawn toward a secret community of witches. An early use of Wiccan ideas in fiction.

Novel, 1937. A home-loving hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, is recruited by the wizard Gandalf and thirteen dwarves to help recover their treasure from the dragon Smaug.

Novel, 1954. Frodo Baggins inherits a ring of great power and leaves the Shire to keep it from its maker, the Dark Lord Sauron. First volume of The Lord of the Rings, the “Ring Trilogy” of Appendix N.

Linked stories, 1950. The far future, when the sun is failing and magic has displaced science; wizards, witches and artificial beings pursue knowledge, beauty and power. First of the Dying Earth series.

Linked stories, 1966. Cugel the Clever, caught robbing a wizard, is magically sent to a distant land and compelled to bring back a rare magical lens. Second book of the Dying Earth series.

Novel, 1971. A tidally locked world, science ruling its day side and magic its night. A thief who draws his power from shadow seeks revenge on the lords of the dark side.

Novel, 1970. A man with amnesia wakes in a New York hospital and learns that he is a prince of Amber, the one true world, of which Earth is a shadow. First of the Chronicles of Amber.