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The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 4, an anthology of fantasy short fiction edited by Lin Carter.

Volume 4 of the The Year's Best Fantasy Stories fantasy anthology series.

• The Year in Fantasy – a foreword by Lin Carter
• The Tale of Hauk – by Poul Anderson – first published in Swords Against Darkness (Zebra, 1977)
• A Farmer on the Clyde – by Lin Cater (writing as Grail Undwin)
• Prince Alcouz and the Magician – by Clark Ashton Smith – first published as a chapbook by Roy A. Squires in 1977
• Nekht Semerkeht – by Robert E. Howard and Andrew J. Offutt – first published in Swords Against Darkness (Zebra, 1977)
• The Pillars of Hell – by Lin Carter – first published in Fantastic (Vol.26, No.4, December 1977)
• Lok the Depressor – by Philip Coakley
• "Hark! Was That the Squeal of an Angry Thoat?" – by Avram Davidson – first published in Fantastic (Vol.26, No.4, December 1977)
• The Cloak of Dreams – by Pat McIntosh
• The Land of Sorrow – by Phyllis Eisenstein – first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Vol.53, No.3, #316, September 1977)
• Odds Against the Gods – by Tanith Lee – first published in Swords Against Darkness II (Zebra, 1977)
• The Changer of Names – by Ramsey Campbell – first published in Swords Against Darkness II (Zebra, 1977)
• The Year's Best Fantasy Books – an afterword by Lin Carter