In The Land of Dreams: Lord Dunsany’s At the Edge of the World
Jul29

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...

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Adventures in Fiction: Lord Dunsany
Jul24

Adventures in Fiction: Lord Dunsany

Appendix N Birthday: Lord Dunsany (also known as Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany)by Michael CurtisOur Adventures in Fiction series is meant to take a look at the writers and creators behind the genre(s) that helped to forge not only our favorite hobby but our lives. We invite you to explore the entirety of the series on our Adventures In Fiction home page.Today is the birthday of Lord Dunsany,...

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Ballantine Adult Fantasy: Lord Dunsany
Jul22

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...

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Fantasy in the Time of Lord Dunsany
Jul19

Fantasy in the Time of Lord Dunsany

Fantasy in the Time of Lord Dunsanyby Brian Murphy“I never hunt for an idea. It must come to me and I must be struck by the wonder of it. I go beyond reality in so much of my writing because I’ve always preferred the big thing. Why shoot at a rabbit when you have a chance to shoot at a tiger?”–Lord Dunsany, from Lord Dunsany, King of Dreams.When Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (July 1878-October 1957)...

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Adventures in Fiction: Lord Dunsany
Aug08

Adventures in Fiction: Lord Dunsany

Appendix N Birthday: Lord Dunsany (also known as Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany)by Michael CurtisOur Adventures in Fiction series is meant to take a look at the writers and creators behind the genre(s) that helped to forge not only our favorite hobby but our lives. We invite you to explore the entirety of the series on our Adventures In Fiction home page.Lord Dunsany’s birthday was July 24th —...

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