How long are Sword & Sorcery stories? (Related Question: How long should a Sword & Sorcery short story be?)
Well, let's look at some historical examples...
Conan by Robert Howard:
- The Phoenix on the Sword: 8,823
- The Scarlet Citadel: 15,446
- The Tower of the Elephant: 9,726
- Black Colossus: 14,346
- The Slithering Shadow: 12,897
- The Pool of the Black One: 11,252
- Rogues in the House: 9,676
- The Frost Giant’s Daughter: 3,284
- Iron Shadows in the Moon: 12,123
- Queen of the Black Coast: 11,334
- The Devil in Iron: 12,292
- The People of the Black Circle: 30,890
- A Witch Shall be Born: 16,337
- Jewels of Gwahlur: 17,167
- Beyond the Black River: 21,799
- Shadows in Zamboula: 12,146
- The Hour of the Dragon: 72,375
- Red Nails: 30,946
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser by Fritz Leiber:
- The Jewels in the Forest: 14,215
- The Bleak Shore: 4,272
- The Howling Tower: 5,855
- The Sunken Land: 6,900
- Thieves’ House: 12,235
- Adept’s Gambit: 31,901
- Claws from the Night: 9,410
- The Seven Black Priests: 9,523
- Lean Times in Lankhmar: 15,400
- When the Sea-King’s away: 9,806
- The Cloud of Hate: 4,929
- Bazaar of the Bizarre: 9,653
- Their Mistress, the Sea: 1,316
- The Wrong Beach: 2,267
- The Circle Curse: 3,596
- The Price of Pain-Ease: 4,650
Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock
- Elric of Melnibone: 48,000
- The Sailor on the Seas of Fate: 24,000
- The Weird of the White Wolf: 39,000
- The Vanishing Tower: 48,000
- The Bane of the Black Sword: 45,000
- Stormbringer: 71,000
The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski
- The Witcher: 10,213
- A Grain of Truth: 10,418
- The Lesser Evil: 12,764
- A Question of Price: 13,105
- The Edge of the World: 14,395
- The Last Wish: 18,349
- The Voice of Reason: 12,495
Also let's look at some works of H.P. Lovecraft, who wrote in a different subgenre, but also wrote Pulp Fiction short stories, novelettes and novellas:
- Dagon: 2,216
- The Lurking Fear: 8,164
- The Rats in the Walls: 7,974
- The Shunned House: 10,742
- The Call of Cthulhu: 11,905
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward: 51,112
- The Colour out of Space: 12,457
- The Dunwhich Horror: 17,524
- The Whisperer in Darkness: 26,624
- At the Mountains of Madness: 40,881
- The Shadow over Innsmouth: 27,026
- The Thing on the Doorstep: 10,954
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