Lin Carter

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  • Bibliography:
    80 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1965
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Flashing Swords

4 - Flashing Swords! (1972)
Barbarians and Black Magicians (Oct-1977)
Demons and Daggers (Nov-1981)

Gondwane Epic

1 - The Warrior of World's End (Dec-1974)
2 - The Enchantress of World's End (Jan-2001)
3 - The Immortal of World's End (Jan-2001)
4 - The Barbarian of World's End (Jan-2001)
5 - The Pirate of World's End (Jan-2001)

Green Star

1 - Under the Green Star (Nov-1972)
2 - When the Green Star Calls (Jul-1973)
4 - As the Green Star Rises (Feb-1975)
5 - In the Green Star's Glow (Jan-1976)

Thongor of Lemuria

Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria (1965)
Thongor and the Dragon City (1966)
Thongor Against the Gods (1967)
Thongor at the End of Time (1968)
Thongor in the City of Magicians (1968)
Thongor Fights the Pirates of Tarakus (1970)

Zarkon, Lord of the Unknown

1 - The Nemesis of Evil (Dec-1999)
2 - Invisible Death (Dec-1999)
3 - The Volcano Ogre (Dec-1999)
4 - The Earth-Shaker (Nov-2017)
5 - Horror Wears Blue (Nov-1987)

Book List in Order: 80 titles

  • Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria

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    Thongor of Lemuria

    Thongor of Valkarth -- mightiest warrior of the ancient continent of Lemuria, before the dawn of history -- launches into his saga with this rousing adventure of swordplay and sorcery. The ancient dragon kings have deemed the hour right to regain the...

  • Thongor and the Dragon City

    Thongor of Lemuria

    Xothun had ruled in Omm for a thousand years -- master of strange powers, yet slave to his craving for human blood. The lost city lived only to serve -- and feed -- Xothun.... Then came the barbarian adventurer, Thongor of Valkarth, with a city to fr...

  • Thongor Against the Gods

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    Thongor of Lemuria

    A new ruler has arisen on the ancient continent of Lemuria. It is Thongor the Barbarian, whose dauntless courage and mighty sword have made him overlord of a thriving young empire. Against him conspire in secret those dedicated to the Black Gods of C...

  • Thongor at the End of Time

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    Thongor of Lemuria

  • Thongor in the City of Magicians

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    Thongor of Lemuria

  • Lost World of Time

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    Destined to fulfill an ancient prophecy, the warrior Sargon strode through the gates of Chalsadon -- the last refuge of a once-proud empire. Everywhere about him, corruption and pestilence racked the dying city. Every day more of the precious Innerl...

  • Thongor Fights the Pirates of Tarakus

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    Thongor of Lemuria

  • Flashing Swords!

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    Flashing Swords - 4

  • Under the Green Star

    Green Star - 1

    On Earth, life held for him only the fate of a recluse--confined to daydreams and the lore of ancient wonders but apparently destined never to share them--until he found the formula that let him cross space to the world of the Green Star. There, app...



  • Imaginary Worlds

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  • Black Legion of Callisto

  • When the Green Star Calls

    Green Star - 2

    To him, Earth was a prison of the mind and body. Only on the world of the Green Star would he walk -- in the borrowed body of a primitive youth. A thrilling adventure in the grand tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs, as only Lin Carter can tell it! Thi...

  • The Man Who Loved Mars

    Once it had been king city of a mighty empire and the center of the ancient faith; Gateway to the Gods, the old epics name it. Now it was dead, empty, deserted, only a dim ghost of its vanished splendor. Such was Ilionis, the Lost City of Mars. A som...

  • The Warrior of World's End

    Gondwane Epic - 1

    "I see Gondwane as it shall be in the untold ages of dim futurity, near the time when the Earth shall be man’s habitation no more, and the great night shall enfold all, and naught but the cold stars shall reign. The first sign of the end ye shall s...

  • As the Green Star Rises

    Green Star - 4

    DAYBREAK OF ADVENTURE In the marvel-adventure sages of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Otis Adelbert Kline and John Norman has there ever been a situation such as befell the Earthling who found his way to the world under the Green Star? For while his rea...

  • In the Green Star's Glow

    Green Star - 5

    He was Karn, the savage of the sky-high trees. He was protector and defender of the princess Niamh, whose very city was lost in the mapless jungles of the world under the Green Star. But he was also an Earthling, whose helpless body lay in suspended ...

  • Kingdoms of Sorcery

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  • The Year's Best Fantasy Stories

  • Barbarians and Black Magicians

    Flashing Swords

    CLASHES OF SPIRIT AND OF SWORD! Welcome to five incredible dreamworlds, where the noblest of heroes go forth to battle nightmares and phantasmagoria. Here, in realms of deepest enchantment, the true masters of Sword and Sorcery work their most ama...



  • The Wizard of Zao

    'A few years ago it occurred to me that it might be fun to design an entire solar system full of planets, and set a novel on each planet -- and not science fiction novels either, as you might logically expect -- but heroic fantasy. Not only would th...

  • Renegade of Callisto

  • Tara of the Twilight

  • Journey to the Underground World

    The legends of a fabled land of the lost have floated for centuries around the bazaars of North Africa and the sand-surrounded oases of the vast Sahara. They tell of treasure caravans that have never returned, of weird monsters forgotten by time, of ...

  • Zanthodon

  • Lost Worlds

  • The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 6

  • Weird Tales

    Volume 48, No. 1, First in a series of 4 issued in mass market paperback format. Contents: The Eyrie, essay by Lin Carter; Scarlet Tears, by Robert E. Howard; Down There, (1978) by Ramsey Campbell; The Light From the Pole, by Clark Ashton Smith and ...

  • Hurok of the Stone Age

  • Darya of Bronze Age

    Under the trackless sands of the Sahara lies Zanthodon. That vast subterranean realm is the final homeland of the one-time masters of the world's surface - great dinosaurs, mighty jungles and living bands of primitive peoples from Neanderthals to Anc...



  • Demons and Daggers

    Flashing Swords

    Come enter the amazing realms of magic and mythic fantasy, where wizards and magi conjure up astounding powers and spells against fearsome demons of the Shadow Worlds. Thrill to five daring exploits by the masters of heroic fantasy as their protagoni...

  • Eric of Zanthodon

  • By the Light of the Green Star

    Miscast is the role of assassin, inhabiting the stolen body of a stalwart savage, the star-wanderer from Earth found himself in dangers beyond even his wildest imaginings. His friends had fled, his princess with them, and awaiting him were the isl...

  • Kesrick

    Take one young and handsome knight setting out on a Quest...Mix in: A dragon at World's Edge waiting for a knightly meal... A naked princess staked out for a sea serpent... A Tartar prince looking for a Flying Garden... A super-wizard with a qu...

  • Kellory the Warlock

    Kellory -- the last of the Black Wolves, sole descendant of the Lost Kings of Illyrion. His fighting arm maimed, his homeland stolen, his tribe mercilessly slaughtered by the dread Thungoda Horde, he seeks revenge with the only weapon left to him -- ...

  • Down to a Sunless Sea

  • Dragonrouge

    Come with us out of this dull, workaday world to Terra Magica, tha land beyond World's Edge, where knights ride out on wonder quests, where beautiful princesses wait for rescue from sea serpents, where sky-high giants seek human morsels for their co...

  • Found Wanting

  • Mandricardo

  • Horror Wears Blue

    Zarkon, Lord of the Unknown - 5



  • Callipygia

    WELCOME TO TERRA MAGICA . . .

    Terra Magica, the fabulous land next door to our own Terra Cognita, is where trolls and monsters, warriors and wizards vie over virtuous maidens and the wealth of kingdoms . . .

    Callipygia the Amazon and her stal...

  • Lovecraft

  • The Xothic Legend Cycle

    The late Lin Carter was a prolific writer and anthologist of horror and fantasy with over eighty titles to his credit. His tales of Mythos horror are loving tributes to H. P. Lovecraft's 'revision' tales and to August Derleth's stories of Hastur and ...

  • Beyond the Gates of Dream

    This collection, first published in 1969, showcases the range of Lin Carter's writing talent: fantasy, science fiction, horror, and humor are all here, with the winning charm of a master storyteller....

  • The Black Star

  • The City Outside the World

  • The Quest of Kadji

    Zarouk, aging warrior and grandfather to young Kadji, implored the boy to dethrone Prince Yakthodah, vile imposter-heir to the throne of the Dragon Emperor. On Haral, his faithful, black Feridoon pony, and with beautiful, redhaired Thyra at his side,...

  • Tower at the Edge of Time

  • Invisible Death

    Zarkon, Lord of the Unknown - 2

    Doubleday, 1975, first edition hardcover with dustjacket. This is the second in the "Zarkon" series of pulp adventure novels modeled after "Doc Savage." Other novels in the series are: "The Nemesis of Evil" (1975); "The Volcano Ogre" (1976); "The Ear...

  • The Nemesis of Evil

    Zarkon, Lord of the Unknown - 1

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  • The Volcano Ogre

    Zarkon, Lord of the Unknown - 3

  • Callisto

    THE CLASSIC FANTASY SERIES FROM THE CO-AUTHOR OF CONAN THE BARBARIAN! At the height of the Vietnam War, Jon Dark is a helicopter pilot for the International Red Cross, flying numerous rescue missions...until the day his helicopter crashes in the Camb...

  • The Barbarian of World's End

    Gondwane Epic - 4

    Ganelon Silvermane, the genetically designed superhero of the Earth's fabulous final age, has rapidly become the most popular of all Lin Carter’s creations. Brought to life prematurely, Ganelon’s adventures in a world of crumbling empires, ravagi...

  • The Enchantress of World's End

    Gondwane Epic - 2

    Gondwane . . . In the last days of Earth, the continents drifted together again after aeons of separation, and that was Gondwane.

    Gondwane . . . When all the kingdoms of all the peoples of Earth had come and gone and new ones arose, it was on Gond...

  • The Immortal of World's End

    Gondwane Epic - 3

    Ganelon Silvermane, the genetically designed superhero of the Earth's fabulous final age, has rapidly become the most popular of all Lin Carter’s creations. Brought to life prematurely, Ganelon’s adventures in a world of crumbling empires, ravagi...

  • The Pirate of World's End

    Gondwane Epic - 5

    Ganelon Silvermane, the genetically designed superhero of the Earth's fabulous final age, has rapidly become the most popular of all Lin Carter’s creations. Brought to life prematurely, Ganelon’s adventures in a world of crumbling empires, ravagi...

  • Mad Empress Of Callisto

  • Star Rogue

    Star Rogue is set thousands of years in the future during the Great Imperium. The story follows Saul Everest, an immortal man living in seclusion, as he investigates a disturbance at the edge of the galaxy. Everest discovers a mysterious intruder nea...

  • Tolkien

  • Discoveries in Fantasy

  • Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy

  • The Valley Where Time Stood Still

  • Tower Of The Medusa

    In the distant future, when science has evolved into an art indistinguishable from magic, Kirin the thief finds himself forced down on an alien planet. Gathering allies, he must defeat the Witch Queen -- who plans nothing less than the conquest of th...

  • Tower if the Medusa

    In the distant future, when science has evolved into an art indistinguishable from magic, Kirin the thief finds himself forced down on an alien planet. Gathering allies, he must defeat the Witch Queen -- who plans nothing less than the conquest of th...

  • Young Thongor

    Lin Carter's greatest creation, the barbarian swordsman Thongor of Lemuria, returns in his first new book in more than 40 years! "Young Thongor" collects Carter's short stories about Thongor's earliest adventures. Drawing on Rober...

  • Thongor of Lemuria

  • The Earth-Shaker

    Zarkon, Lord of the Unknown - 4

    “I hold supreme power of life and death... Surrender, Zarkon -- or die!”Knickerbocker City was paralyzed with fear. Two banks had been disintegrated by fiendishly targeted earthquakes. And the latest message from Lucifer, arch-villain and crimi...

  • Time War

    John Lux was an electronic scientist, a level-headed industrialist, an ordinary twentieth-century man -- at least he thought he was an ordinary man...until he discovered he could teleport himself! ...Until he discovered that forces 200,000 years beyo...

  • Ylana of Callisto

  • Darya of the Bronze Age

  • Mind Wizards of Callisto

  • Giant of World's End

  • Lankar of Callisto

    When fantasy author Lin Carter falls through a mystical portal to the jungle moon Callisto, he embarks on a thrilling interplanetary adventure. Befriending a loyal beast called Bozo and a young warrior named Taran, Carter battles vastodons, joins the...

  • Outworlder

  • The Purloined Planet

  • The Star Magicians

  • Sky Pirates of Callisto

  • The Flame of Iridar

  • The Man Without a Planet

  • The Thief of Thoth

  • The Xothic Cycle

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lin Carter has published 80 books.

Lin Carter does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Man Without a Planet, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Lin Carter, Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria, was published in January 1965.

Yes. Lin Carter has 5 series.
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