The Owl and the Ape

"The Owl and the Ape"
Short story by L. Sprague de Camp
W. E. Terry's illustration of
the story in Imagination
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Fantasy
Publication
Published inImagination: Stories of Science and Fantasy
Media typePrint (Magazine)
Publication dateNovember, 1951
Chronology
SeriesPusadian series
 
The Eye of Tandyla
 
The Hungry Hercynian

"The Owl and the Ape" is a fantasy story by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, part of his Pusadian series. It was first published in the magazine Imagination: Stories of Science and Fantasy for November, 1951, and first appeared in book form in the de Camp's collection The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales (Twayne, 1953). The story has also appeared in the anthology Kingdoms of Sorcery (1976).[1][2] and the de Camp omnibus collection Lest Darkness Fall/Rogue Queen/The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales (2014).[2] It has also been translated into German.[1]

  1. ^ a b Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. p. 222.
  2. ^ a b The Owl and the Ape title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database