"A treasure-chest of bright imagination from the shining kingdoms of the mind... Fantasy from the days of future past by present sorcerers with the precious gift of creation, including: The Curse of the Monolith: Conan the Cimerian encounters treachery and an evil-smelling slime-monster ; The Ogyr of the Snows: Rheged the Celsman and Farrach, known as the Halfpike, face monstrous death in the northern mountains ; The Sleeping Sorceress: Elric and Moonglum, aided by the vampiric Black Sword, 'Stormbringer', set out to revenge themselves on the sorcerer Theleb K'aarna. Incredible tales of the fantastic, most of which appear in this anthology for the first time."--Pg. [4] of cover.