Swords Against Darkness is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Andrew J. Offutt, the first in a series of five anthologies of the same name. It was first published in paperback by Zebra Books in February 1977, and reprinted by the same publisher in April 1990.^[1]

The book collects nine short stories and novelettes by various fantasy authors, with a foreword by Offutt.

• "Foreword" (Andrew J. Offutt)
• "Nekht Semerkeht" (Robert E. Howard and Andrew J. Offutt)
• "The Tale of Hauk" (Poul Anderson)
• "The Smile of Oisia" (George W. Proctor)
• "Pride of the Fleet" (Bruce Jones)
• "Straggler from Atlantis" (Manly Wade Wellman)
• "The Ring of Set" (Richard L. Tierney)
• "Largarut's Bane" (Raul Garcia Capella)
• "Dragons' Teeth" (David Drake)
• "The Sustenance of Hoak" (Ramsey Campbell)

The anthology was reviewed by Lin Carter in The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 4 (1978), and by Beatrice Gemignani in Science Fiction Review, Summer 1991.^[1]