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The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 5, an anthology of fantasy short fiction edited by Lin Carter.

Volume 5 of the The Year's Best Fantasy Stories fantasy anthology series.

• The Year in Fantasy – a foreword by Lin Carter
• The Troll – by T.H. White – first published in Gone to Ground (Collins, 1935)
• In the Balance – by Tanith Lee – first published in Swords Against Darkness III (Zebra, 1978)
• The Gem in the Tower – by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter – first published in Conan the Swordsman (Bantam, 1978)
• Above Ker-Is – by Evangeline Walton – first published in The Fantastic Imagination II (Avon, 1978)
• Ms. Lipshutz and the Goblin – by Marvin Kaye – first published in Fantastic (Vol.27 No.3, October 1978)
• Rhian and Garanhir – by Lin Cater (writing as Grail Undwin)
• Lord of the Dead – by Robert E. Howard – first published in Skull-Face (Berkley, 1978)
• Child of Air – by Pat McIntosh
• A Malady of Magicks – by Craig Shaw Gardner – first published in Fantastic (Vol.27 No.3, October 1978)
• St. George – by David Mallory
• Astral Stray – by Adrian Cole – first published in Heroic Fantasy (DAW, 1979)
• Demon and Demoiselle – by Janet Fox – first published in Fantastic (Vol.27 No.3, October 1978)
• The Year's Best Fantasy Books – an afterword by Lin Carter