title: Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy I
text: # Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy I
  
  Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy I is an anthology of fantasy novellas, edited by American writer Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books in September, 1972 as the fifty-second volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. It was the eighth such anthology assembled by Carter for the series.
  
  ## Summary
  
  The book collects four novellas by five fantasy authors, with an overall introduction and notes by Carter. It is a companion volume to Carter's subsequent collection Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II (1973).
  
  ## Contents
  
  * "Introduction" (Lin Carter)
  * "The Wall of Serpents" (Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp)
  * "The Kingdom of the Dwarfs" (Anatole France)
  * "The Maker of Moons" (Robert W. Chambers)
  * "The Hollow Land" (William Morris)
  
  ## Reception
  
  The book was reviewed by Everett F. Bleiler in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1983.
  
  