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The Year's Best Fantasy Stories, an anthology of fantasy short fiction edited by Lin Carter.

Volume 1 of the The Year's Best Fantasy Stories fantasy anthology series.

• The Year in Fantasy – a foreword by Lin Carter
• The Jewel of Arwen – by Marion Zimmer Bradley – first published in I Palantir (#2, August 1961) and later as a chapbook by T-K Graphics in 1974
• The Sword Dyrnwyn – by Lloyd Alexander
• The Temple of Abomination – by Robert E. Howard – first published in Tigers of the Sea (Donald M. Grant, 1974)
• The Double Tower – by Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter – first published in Weird Tales (Vol.47, No.3, Winter 1973)
• Trapped in the Shadowland – by Fritz Leiber – first published in Fantastic (Vol.23, No.1, November 1973)
• Black Hawk of Valkarth – by Lin Carter – first published in Fantastic (Vol.23, No.6, September 1974)
• Jewel Quest – by Hannes Bok – first published in Kadath (#1 1974)
• The Emperor's Fan – by L. Sprague de Camp – first published in Astounding: John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology (Random House, 1973)
• Falcon's Mate – by Pat McIntosh – first published in Anduril (#4, July 1974)
• The City of Madness – by Charles R. Saunders – first published as M'ji Ya Wzimu in Dark Fantasy (Vol.1, No.4, July 1974 and Vol.2, No.5, October 1974)
• The Seventeen Virgins – by Jack Vance – first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Vol.47, No.4, #281, October 1974)
• The Year's Best Fantasy Books – an afterword by Lin Carter