Six Books by Thomas Burnett Swann
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Overview: Thomas Burnett Swann was a brilliant fantasy writer who died in 1976. He wrote primarily about the ancient Greek and Roman world, blending myth with romance and adventure. A reviewer in the Village Voice sums his work up well: "Swann’s neo-romantic fantasies of the past are unique. He uses the stuff of myth but with twists and inventions of his own."
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Weirwoods (1967) (ed. Jim3692)
The Etruscan city of Sutrium lay beside a deep forest known only as the Weirwoods—for in its mysterious depths lived the strange beings called the Weir Ones: Centaurs, Water Sprites, Fauns and Panisci These were half-humans touched with magic, and between them and the Etruscans there was constant fear and distrust
So when the nobleman Lars Velcha captured a creature of the Weirwoods and made him a slave of his house in Sutrium, he courted disaster, And it was not long in coming, as the Weir Ones massed together behind the spells of a Water Sprite sorceress and attacked the city with the overwhelming savagery of the wildest creatures of Earth’s fantastic dawn.
Once again Thomas Burnett Swann tells a breathtaking tale of alien beauty and earthshaking warfare— a novel you’ll never forget
This is slightly different version from Ace books which was published late and not the version that was serialised in Science Fantasy #77, 78 in 1965
Where Is the Bird of Fire (1970)
Were the mythical monsters our ancestors spoke of so often more than fantasy? Is it not probable that these semi-human races existed- and that only human vanity has blurred their memory
The Goat Without Horns (ed. Jerry eBooks 2021) Magazine variant
Custom-made epub of the original two-part serialized novel from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August-September 1970
A strange tale of a remote island, an island which should be a paradise, but quickly becomes a nightmare in which all known rules of behaviour seem reversed. There, a young man brought up amidst the proprieties of Victorian England finds that his only friend is one small, lonely dolphin…and his enemies include several well-ordered hammerhead sharks…
The Goat Without Horns (1971) (ed. Jim3692) Book variant
The Goat Without Horn"s was Thomas Burnett Swann’s first book-length work — a strange tale of a remote island, an island which should be a paradise, but quickly becomes a nightmare in which all known rules of behaviour seem reversed. There, a young man brought up amidst the proprieties of Victorian England finds that his only friend is one small, lonely dolphin…and his enemies include several well-ordered hammerhead sharks…
The Gods Abide (1976) (ed. Jim3692)
In this tale of the time of Rome and the Celtic kingdoms, Swann tells the story of the retreat of the pagan gods and all their array of sprites and nymphs and little folk. Facing the ruthless practicality of the new religion that denies their very right to exist, the varied prehumans face utter destruction unless they can find a sanctuary beyond detection. This short novel tells their tale and that of two of their defenders, who follow the trail of the legendary immortals to the very waters of the Styx. It is a masterpiece of poetic imagery, fantastic adventure, and sheer literary delight.
The Tournament of Thorns (1976) (ed. Jim3692)
Two boys and a girl in 13th-century England who are threatened by Mandrakes, humanoid trees.
The Tournament of Thorns is a beautiful and sensitive work created by an artist who has for decades enchanted readers throughout the world, In this superior novel, Thomas Burnett Swann draws upon his ability to blend history and legend, fashioning a brilliant tale of the middle ages.
Will-O-The-Wisp (1977) (ed. Jim3692)
The only edition of this novel, which was serialized in Fantastic magazine in 1974.
Will-o-the-wisp – the light that danced across the Devon Moors – enticing the good puritan people to death and devilment…For up on the tors dwelt the infamous Gubbings who crucified their victims, murdered and bewitched…
Were they really warlocks, or were they creatures of fantasy from another time, another planet?
Robert Herrick, poet, vicar and pagan, the golden giant with a lusty heart, dared to brave the moors and challenge the ancient myth…
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