In The Land of Dreams: Lord Dunsany’s At the Edge of the World
In The Land of Dreams: Lord Dunsany’s At the Edge of the Worldby Fletcher VredenburghI didn’t read any of Dunsany’s stories until long after I had encountered several of his direct literary descendants. I discovered H.P. Lovecraft on the Stapleton Library shelves, Clark Ashton Smith on the foxed pages of old anthologies, and Jack Vance in dad’s boxes of books in the attic. I didn’t know their style had...
Ballantine Adult Fantasy: Lord Dunsany
Among the most reprinted authors in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy line was Lord Dunsany, the Anglo-Irish peer who was also a tremendously prolific short story writer and playwright. Dunsany’s sweeping elegies of imagined worlds were both reminiscent of classical myth and the dreaming aesthetic of the visionary fantasists and tellers of Weird Tales going back to Poe. Dunsany is cited as an influence by almost every major writer of...
Announcing DCC #97: The Queen of Elfland’s Son
Strange things are afoot in the village of Eng…. The Queen of Elfland’s Son is the latest adventure for the Dungeon Crawl Classics role-playing game. Meant for level one characters, it offers up a chance to venture into magical realms and face dangers by magic, sword, and politics—and that last one is nasty. Slaughter and shadows keep the villagers of Eng inside after dark. Mighty adventurers are needed to seek out the source of...
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