Just in time for FurryBookMonth in October I´m finally able to offer the multi-award winning anthologies by the Furry Historical Fiction Society. Three have already been published, a fourth one is in the making.


You can order them by sending me a note or an email (order@fusselschwarm.net). I´m shipping to Germany (for free) and all over Europe (shipping costs starting from 5 EUR / UK: minimum order size equivalent to 135 GBP). Payment methods: int. bank transfer or PayPal.

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The Furry Historical Fiction Society (Ed.)

When the World Was Young
A Prehistoric Anthology
Paperback, 354 pages, 20,00 EUR (Cover by  Heskynn aka Heskynn)

The invention of writing postdates, invariably, the invention of storytelling. After all, what purpose is there to writing, until you have something to write down?
Excavate these writings, then. Decipher them carefully. Let them, at last, convince you to forget writing until instead they sit across the fire, speaking to you oral traditions, folktales, and of days long, long past When the World Was Young.
Winner of the 2022 Cóyotl Award for Best Anthology and recipient of the Leo Literary Award for Anthology and for Cover Art.

Contents: "The Dance of Peruvaan" by SakaraFox, "Lids" by Utunu (Winner of the 2022 Cóyotl Award for Best Short Story), "Worn-Out Tools" by Huskyteer, "Howling to the Moon" by J.F.R. Coates, "The Eyeshine of the Soothsayer" by NightEyes DaySpring, "Daughter of Thunder or The Land of Many Deer" by Rose LaCroix, "Unseeing" by Madison Scott-Clary, "Priest of Lilies" by Kayodé Lycaon, "Let Him that Speaketh Fate to Man Have No Fate of His Own" by Rob MacWolf, "The Shrine of T-am-ădad" by Thomas "Faux" Steele, "Unmourned" by Haya Baru, "The Last Giant" by J.S. Hawthorne, "Requiem" by Pascal Farful, "Mark of the Stranger" by Casimir Laski


In The Light of the Dawn
An Anthology of Antiquities
Paperback, 448 pages, 20,00 EUR (Cover by  Erkhyan)

We invented writing to preserve our stories and to share them with each other. From the mistiest stretches of history we find scraps and pieces of tales we told each other, forming the myths, legends, and dramas that persist to this day.
Hear us, then. Listen to the stories passed down from the earliest foundations of civilizations, to the creation of nations and empires. Hear the stories of the grandest rulers to the humblest peasants. The world is not so young as it was, but walk with us in these tales of antiquity: In the Light of the Dawn.
Winner of the 2023 Cóyotl Award for Best Anthology.

Contents: "The Price of Copper" by Utunu, "Exile from the Land of Giant Turtles" by Gar "Sahoni" Atkins, "As the Gods Demand" by NightEyes DaySpring, "The Vixen with the Crooked Muzzle" by Casterway, "Heka" by Faolan, "A Fortunein Ruins" by Fapfox, "The Mouse from Mykonos" by Huskyteer, "The Satrap´s Mark" by Thomas "Faux" Steele, "A Perfectly Normal Day" by Kayodé Lycaon, "The Merchant and the Martyr" by Casimir Laski, "The Lament of the Batavii" by J.S. Hawthorne, "Fire and Brimstone" by J.F.R. Coates, "...and the Sands of the Deserts Wash Over the Worlds" by Pascal Farful, "Eulalius!" by Ziegenbock, "Tomes Entombed Within Me" Domus Vocis, "To Your Own Dwfences" by Televassi (Winner of the 2023 Cóyotl Award for Best Short Story), "Go to the Road, and Ask Any Passing Traveler" by Rob MacWolf, "The Traces of Thomas Antiochus Macrotis" by Rose LaCroix


The Heavens Within Our Grasp
A Medieval Anthology
Paperback, 472 pages, 20,00 EUR (Cover by  BlueHunterART)

When empires collapse, when plague and invasion threaten, when the knowledge and culture of the old order is slipping away and being forgotten, it is writing that safeguards the future.
Study these tales, then. By candlelight, by lamplight, by the noonday sun. Find in them the strength, and weakness, of feudal monarchs, the piety of monks both literal and figurative, and the fear of forgetting and being forgotten that is the beginning of knowledge: for it is these which may yet put The Heavens Within Our Grasp.
Winner of the 2024 Cóyotl Award for Best Anthology.

Contents: "A Final Offering" by NightEyes DaySpring, "The Purple Rose" by J.F.R. Coates, "The Seekers of Winter" by Alex T. Dragonson, "Spring and Autumn of North and South" by Fapfox and Erik, "Doomsday" by Televassi, "Siegewalkers" by Valduin, "Midway in the Journey of Our Lives" by Rob MacWolf, "Scapegoat" by Domus Vocis, "under the Empty Sky" by J.S. Hawthorne, "Houses of Stone" by Utunu (Winner of the 2024 Cóyotl Award for Best Short Story), "The Abbey of Saint Vera" by Casimir Laski, "Where His Side Was Pierced" by Rose LaCroix, "The Golden Son of Rahe Neer" by Thomas "Faux" Steele, "The Bleak Tower" by Cedric G! Bacon, "The Course of the Reiver" by Ziegenbock, "One Book to Burn" by Faolan, "Heaven Will Weight the Heart of Stone" by Pascal Farful


The Wideness of the World
An Early Modern Anthology
Coming in late 2025 (Cover by  Drawing_sofa)