The Empress of Dreams

The book collects sixteen short works of by the author in the Sword and Sorcery subgenre.

• "Odds Against the Gods" (from Swords Against Darkness II, Sep. 1977)
• "Sleeping Tiger" (from Dragonbane no. 1, Spring 1978)
• "The Demoness" (from The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 2, 1976)
• "The Sombrus Tower" (from Weird Tales 2, 1980)
• "Winter White" (from The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VI, 1978)
• "In the Balance" (from Swords Against Darkness III, 1978)
• "Northern Chess" (from Amazons!, 1979)
• "Southern LIghts" (from Amazons II, 1982)
• "Mirage and Magia" (from Hecate's Cauldron, 1982)
• "The Three Brides of Hamid-Dar" (from Arabesques 2, 1989)
• "The Pain of Glass" (from Clockwork Phoenix 2, 2009)
• "These Beasts" (from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction v. 88, no. 6, June 1995)
• "Two Lions, a Witch, and the War-Robe" (from Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery, June 2010)
• "A Tower of Arkrondurl" (from Legends: Stories in honour of David Gemmell, Oct. 2013)
• "The Woman in Scarlet" (from Realms of Fantasy v. 6, no. 4, Apr. 2000)
• "Evillo the Uncunning" (from Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance, 2009)