Best of
Fantasy

1966

The Man Who Was Magic


Paul Gallico - 1966
    A stranger comes to the city of Mageia and challenges its inhabitants with a new kind of magic - a magic that restores innocence and faith.

Black and Blue Magic


Zilpha Keatley Snyder - 1966
    On top of that, most of his friends' families were moving to the suburbs. It would have been a long, dreary summer, but then a Mr. Mazeeck showed up and turned out to be more than he seemed. This now classic book was first published by Atheneum in 1966. It was selected by Scholastic Books for inclusion in the Arrow Book Club and later republished in a Dell Yearling edition in 1988.

Conan the Adventurer


Robert E. Howard - 1966
    Sprague de Camp The People of the Black Circle-Robert E. Howard-Weird Tales 9/34The Slithering Shadow-Robert E. Howard-Weird Tales 9/33 Drums of Tombalku The Pool of the Black One-Robert E. Howard-Weird Tales 10/33

Lord Darcy


Randall Garrett - 1966
    where magic is a science and science is an art... where the great detective Lord Darcy and the sorcerer Sean O'Lochlainn combine occult skills and brilliant deductions to bring criminals to the King's Justice and thwart those who plot against the Realm. Welcome to a world where murder may be committed by magic most foul, but crime still does not pay - as long as Lord Darcy is on the case.

Jane's Adventures In and Out of the Book


Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy - 1966
    Left behind when her parents go on vacation, Jane finds a kingsize book, recites a couplet, and magically falls into the pages, thus starting an adventure in dreamland.

The Bells Of Shoredan


Roger Zelazny - 1966
    Dilvish must ring the Bells of Shoredan to awaken an army of the dead, that the enemies besetting his land may be conquered.