Phantoms and Fancies

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Phantoms and Fancies
Dust-jacket illustration by Tim Kirk for Phantoms and Fancies
Author	L. Sprague de Camp
Illustrator	Tim Kirk
Cover artist	Tim Kirk
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	poetry
Publisher	Mirage Press
Publication date	1972
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	107 pp
ISBN	NA

Phantoms and Fancies is a 1972 collection of poetry by science fiction and fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp, illustrated by Tim Kirk. It was published by Mirage Press.

The book contains most of the poems from de Camp's earlier collection, Demons and Dinosaurs, though the arrangement is different in the current collection, along with a substantial number of additional poems.

[edit] Contents

• "Beholder"
• "Tikal"
• "Tintagel"
• "Meroê"
• "Nahr al-Kalb"
• "Patnâ"
• "New Year's Eve in Baghdad"
• "Ruins"
• "The Jungle Vine"
• "Sirush"
• "Carnac"
• "The Little Lion of Font-de-Gaume"
• "Teotihuacán"
• "Disillusion"
• "Delray Beach, Florida"
• "The Home of the Gods"
• "Bourzi"
• "Tehuantepec"
• "Jewels"
• "African Night"
• "The Irish"
• "The Iron Pillar of Delhi"
• "The Olmec"
• "The Tusk"
• "The Dragon-Kings"
• "A Brook in Vermont"
• "The Indian Rhinoceros"
• "Tiger in the Rain"
• "The Hippopotamus"
• "The Lizards of Tula"
• "The Mantis"
• "The Elephant"
• "The Newt"
• "A Skald's Lament"
• "Heldendämmerung"
• "Transposition"
• "Old Heroes"
• "To R.E.H."
• "Heroes"
• "Où Sont les Planètes d'Antan?"
• "The Ghost"
• Jorian's Jingles:

• "On Battle"
• "On a Shrew"
• "On Executioners"
• "On Polygamy"
• "On Piracy"
• "On His Homeland"
• "On Himself"
• "On Magic"
• "On Death"

• "Envy"
• "A Tale of Two John Carters"
• "Mother and Son"
• "Thoth-Amon's Complaint"
• "A Glass of Goblanti"
• "Xeroxing the Necromonicon"
• "Time"
• "To My Library"
• "Night"
• "Warriors"
• "Acrophobia"
• "Faunas"
• "The Sorcerers"
• "Preferences"
• "Bear on a Bicycle"
• "The Old-Fashioned Lover"
• "The Trap"
• "The Reaper"
• "A Night Club in Cairo"
• "Art"
• "Nabonidus"
• "The Gods"
• "Ghost Ships"
• "Farewell to Adam"
• "Glamour"
• "Ghosts"
• "Creation"
• "Ziggurat"
• "The Great Pyramid"
• "Progress in Baghdad"
• "Reward of Virtue"
• "The Saviors"
• "Leaves"
• "The Other Baghdad"

[edit] References

• Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller, 81.