The Emperor of the Ancient Word and Other Fantastic Stories is a collection of fantasy short stories by American writer Darrell Schweitzer.

It was first published as a trade paperback by Wildside Press in May 2013, with an ebook edition following in October of the same year.

The pieces were originally published from 2000-2011 in various speculative fiction magazines and anthologies.

Schweitzer characterizes them in his introductory note as "some of my best stories from the past ten years or so."

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