Fantasy Fiction: Sword & Sorcery in the Public Domain

Despite the glacial slowness in which literature enters the public domain these days, there are now a lot of old sword & sorcery stories available online as text files or free PDFs. This includes some of the more obscure entries on the 1e DMG’s admirable Appendix N. I’ve posted a list of links below for authors with several stories available online in the public domain. (Note that there are only a few stories available for some authors; don’t expect to find any stories of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser behind the Leiber link, for example.)

• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• James Branch Cabell
• Lord Dunsany
• Robert E. Howard
• Fritz Leiber
• H.P. Lovecraft
• A. Merritt
• Andre Norton
• Clark Ashton Smith