The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 5 is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by American writer Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in January 1980. Despite the anthology's t

Linwood Vrooman Carter was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor and critic. He usually wrote as Lin Carter; known pseudonyms include H. P. Lowcraft and Grail Undwin.