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Table of Contents:

• "Preface"
• "Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean"
• "Blagdaross"
• "The Madness of Andelsprutz"
• "Where the Tides Ebb and Flow"
• "Bethmoora"
• "Idle Days on the Yann"
• "The Sword and the Idol"
• "The Idle City"
• "The Hashish Man"
• "Poor Old Bill"
• "The Beggars"
• "Carcassonne"
• "In Zaccarath"
• "The Field"
• "The Day of the Poll"
• "The Unhappy Body"

Irish writer Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, ranks among the twentieth century's great masters of supernatural and science fiction. An outstanding dramatist whose supernatural plays anticipated the theater of the absurd, Dunsany was also a virtuoso writer of short stories and essays. This selection presents the finest of his works, gathered from long-out-of-print sources.

Contents include the famous "Three Sailors' Gambit," possibly the best chess story ever written; the remarkable trilogy about Nuth and the Gnoles, Thangobrind the Jeweller, and the Gibbelins; exploits of the Gods, including both "The Gods of Pengana" and adventures from other books; and favorite adventures of Jorkens, prince of liars. Dunsany's spellbinding tales are complemented by the remarkable visions of Sidney H. Sime, whose delicate illustrations form an indispensable complement to the stories.

In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales is a posthumous collection of short stories by the writer Lord Dunsany, in the Penguin Classics series. Edited and with an introduction by S. T. Joshi, it assembles material from across Dunsany's long career. The cover illustration is a colourised version of a classic illustration for an early Dunsany story by his preferred artist, Sidney Sime.

The collection includes several of Dunsany's most famous stories. It is grouped in themed sections by the editor, and the contents are:

• Introduction (S. T. Joshi)
• Suggestions for Further Reading (S.T. Joshi)
• A Note on the Text (S. T. Joshi)
• Section I: Pegana and Environs
  • The Gods of Pegana (entire text)
  • Time and the Gods ("The Lament of the Gods for Sardathrion")
  • The Legend of the Dawn
  • In the Land of Time
  • The Relenting of Sarnidac
  • The Fall of Babbulkund
• Section II: Tales of Wonder
  • The Sword of Welleran
  • The Kith of the Elf-Folk
  • The Ghosts
  • The Fortress Unvanquishable Save for Sacnoth
  • Blagdaross
  • Idle Days on the Yann
  • A Shop in Go-by Street
  • The Avenger of Perdóndaris
  • The Bride of the Man-Horse
• Section III: Prose Poems
  • Where the Tides Ebb and Flow
  • The Raft Builders
  • The Prayer of the Flowers
  • The Workman
  • Charon
  • Carcassonne
  • Roses
  • The City
• Section IV: Fantasy and Reality
  • The Wonderful Window
  • The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap
  • The City on Mallington Moor
  • The Bureau d'Echange de Maux
  • The Exiles' Club
  • Thirteen at Table
  • The Last Dream of Bwona Khubla
• Section V: Jorkens
  • The Tale of the Abu Laheeb (the first Jorkens story)
  • Our Distant Cousins
  • The Walk to Lingham
  • The Development of the Rillswood Estate
  • A Life's Work
• Section VI: Some Late Tales
  • The Policeman's Prophecy
  • The Two Bottles of Relish
  • The Cut
  • Poseidon
  • Helping the Fairies
  • The Romance of His Life
  • The Pirate of the Round Pond
• Explanatory Notes (S.T. Joshi)

The classic humorous novel about an alcohol-loving clergyman who thinks he is the reincarnation of a dog.

Dean Spanley is the very archetype of a bland churchman: affable, conventional, prudent without being a prig. Only his keen interest in the transmigration of souls and almost excessive enthusiasm for dogs betray any shadow of eccentricity. And then, richly primed with a few glasses of Imperial Tokay, he slips over the threshold between past and present and becomes a dog. Or are his canine memories no more than fancy? Surely no mere dean could speak so vividly, with such total conviction, of the joys of hunting, of rolling in fresh dung, of baying the moon? No human could know so much of rabbiting, the importance of buying bones, the contemptibility of pigs. My Talks With Dean Spanley, first published in 1936, is certainly Lord Dunsany's funniest book and, in its unique way, a remarkable tour de force.

After his father's interference in Irish politics ends with a band of killers arriving on Christmas night to assassinate him, young Charles Peridore finds himself master of the estate. During idyllic school holidays, Charles enjoys riding to hounds and hunting geese and snipe while his friend Tommy Marlin tells stories of Tir-nan-Og, the land of eternal youth that lies just beyond the bog. But when Progress arrives in the form of an English corporation determined to convert the landscape into factories and housing, it appears that an entire way of life is destined to vanish. Only one thing stands in the way: the sorcery of an old witch, whose curses the English workers do not even believe in. In the novel's unforgettable conclusion, the ancient powers of the wise woman will be pitted against the machinery of modern corporate greed, with surprising and thrilling results.

Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) is one of the most influential fantasy authors of the 20th century, counting H.P. Lovecraft, J.R.R. Tolkien, Michael Moorcock and Neil Gaiman among his many admirers. Regarded by many as his finest novel, The Curse of the Wise Woman (1933), a rich blend of fantasy, nostalgia and autobiography, returns to print for the first time in decades in this edition, which features a new introduction by Mark Valentine.

An inspiration to many for his style and prose, Lord Dunsany was a pioneer for fantasy fiction, inspiring such famous writers as H. P. Lovecraft, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Neil Gaiman to name a few. Over sixty years since its first publication, The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders is now once again available to readers.

In this classic fantasy, a no-nonsense British officer, having offended an Indian swami in his club, finds his spirit lodged into a successful of animal bodies. Some of the animals the officer's spirit enters are a cat, goat, eel, fox, and many others. In his fantastic style, Dunsany captures the exact sentiments of each animal, making it believable that the office has, in fact, taken them as his own.

Out of print for over sixty years, The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders is a fantastic tale that takes you to the core of fantasy writing and shows the skill of Lord Dunsany that many writers hold in the absolute highest regard. A lost classic, The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders is finally available for readers of the beloved fantasy genre.

The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories is the third book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin and others. It was first published in hardcover in 1908, and has been reprinted a number of times since. The book is a series of short stories, some of them linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegana, which were the focus of his earlier collections "The Gods of Pegana" and "Time and the Gods."

Contents:

• "The Sword of Welleran"
• "The Fall of Babbulkund"
• "The Kith of the Elf-Folk"
• "The Highwaymen"
• "In the Twilight"
• "The Ghosts"
• "The Whirlpool"
• "The Hurricane"
• "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth"
• "The Lord of Cities"
• "The Doom of La Traviata"
• "On the Dry Land."

There was also another prophet and his name was Shaun, who had such reverence for the gods of Old that he became able to discern their forms by starlight as they strode, unseen by others, among men. Each night did Shaun discern the forms of the gods and every day he taught concerning them, till men in Averon knew how the gods appeared all grey against the mountains, and how Rhoog was higher than Mount Scagadon, and how Skun was smaller, and how Asgool leaned forward as he strode, and how Trodath peered about him with small eyes.

The poetic style and sweeping grandeur of The King of Elfland's Daughter has made it one of the most beloved fantasy novels of our time, a masterpiece that influenced some of the greatest contemporary fantasists. The heartbreaking story of a marriage between a mortal man and an elf princess is a masterful tapestry of the fairy tale following the "happily ever after."

Table of Contents:

• About "At the Edge of the World" and Lord Dunsany: The Dreams of Mana-Yood-Sushai - essay by Lin Carter
• The Cave of Kai - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• Of the Gods of Averon - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory (variant of "The Sorrow of Search")
• Mlideen - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• The King That Was Not - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• The Men of Yarnith - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• In the Land of Time - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• Time and the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• The Opulence of Yahn - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory (variant of "Usury")
• The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth - (1908) - shortstory
• Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean - (1908) - shortstory
• The Idle City - (1909) - shortstory
• Bethmoora - (1908) - shortstory
• Idle Days on the Yann - [Beyond the Fields We Know - 1] - (1910) - shortstory
• The Hashish Man - (1910) - shortstory
• Carcassonne - (1910) - shortstory
• In Zaccarath - (1909) - shortstory
• The Dream of King Karna-Vootra - (1915) - shortstory
• How the Enemy Came to Thlunrana - (1915) - shortstory
• The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller, and of the Doom That Befell Him - (1911) - shortstory
• A Shop in Go-by Street - [Beyond the Fields We Know - 2] - (1912) - shortstory
• The Avenger of Perdóndaris - [Beyond the Fields We Know - 3] - (1912) - shortstory
• How the Dwarfs Rose Up in War - (1919) - shortstory (variant of "A Pretty Quarrel)"
• The Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men - (1911) - shortstory
• The Loot of Bombasharna - (1912) - shortstory
• The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolater - (1910) - shortstory
• The Bride of the Man-Horse - (1911) - shortstory
• The Quest of the Queen's Tears - (1911) - shortstory
• How One Came, as Was Foretold, to the City of Never - (1911) - shortstory
• A Day at the Edge of the World - (1916) - shortstory (variant of "The Long Porter's Tale" 1914)
• Erlathdronion - (1916) - shortstory (variant of "A Tale of the Equator" 1914)
• Epilogue to "The Book of Wonder" - (1912) - essay
• Afterword (The Edge of the World) - essay by Lin Carter

Lord Dunsany's first novel, Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley, "conveys its young disinherited protagonist through a fantasized Spain, gifting him with a Sancho Panza companion, good luck with magicians, and a castle." [The Encyclopedia of Fantasy] It is a landmark tale for Dunsany, beginning his move from the otherworldly short stories for which his reputation is justly famous to novels, such as the follow-up The King of Elfland's Daughter and The Charwoman's Shadow. L. Sprague de Camp has said: "Dunsany was the second writer (William Morris in the 1880s being the first) fully to exploit the possibilities of... adventurous fantasy laid in imaginary lands, with gods, witches, spirits, and magic, like children."

Beyond the fields we know, in the Lands of Dream, lies the Valley of the Yann where the mighty river of that name, rising in the Hills of Hap, idling its way by massive dream-evoking amethyst cliffs, orchid-laden forests, and ancient mysterious cities, comes to the Gates of Yann and passes to the sea.

Table of Contents:

• About Beyond the Fields We Know and Lord Dunsany: Return to the World's Edge - essay by Lin Carter
• The Gods of Pegana - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of Skarl the Drummer - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of the Making of the Worlds - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of the Game of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The Chaunt of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The Sayings of Kib - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Concerning Sish - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The Sayings of Slid - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The Deeds of Mung - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The Chaunt of the Priests - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The Sayings of Limpang-Tung - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of Yoharneth-Lahai - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of Roon, the God of Going - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The Revolt of the Home Gods - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of Dorozhand - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The Eye in the Waste - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of the Thing That Is Neither God Nor Beast - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Yonath the Prophet - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Yug the Prophet - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Alhireth-Hotep the Prophet - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Kabok the Prophet - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of the Calamity That Befel Yun-Ilara by the Sea - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of How the Gods Whelmed Sidith - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of How Imbaun Became High Prophet in Aradec - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of How Imbaun Met Zodrak - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Pegana - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The Sayings of Imbaun - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of How Imbaun Spake of Death to the King - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of Ood - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The River - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The Bird of Doom and the End - [Pegana] - (1905)
• How Slid Made War Against the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906)
• The Vengeance of Men - [Pegana] - (1906)
• When the Gods Slept - [Pegana] - (1906)
• For the Honour of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906)
• The Wisdom of Ord - [Pegana] - (1972)
• Night and Morning - [Pegana] - (1906)
• The Secret of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906)
• The Relenting of Sarnidac - [Pegana] - (1906)
• The Jest of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906)
• The Dreams of a Prophet - [Pegana] - (1906)
• King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior - (1911) - play
• In the Sahara - (1929) - poem
• Songs From an Evil Wood - (1917) - poem
• The Riders - (1928) - poem
• The Watchers - (1929) - poem
• The Enchanted People - (1928) - poem
• The Happy Isles - (1929) - poem
• A Word in Season - (1929) - poem
• The Quest - (1929) - poem
• The Kith of the Elf-Folk - (1908)
• The Sword of Welleran - (1908)
• The Madness of Andelsprutz - (1908)
• The Sword and the Idol - (1909)
• Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance - (1911)
• Chu-Bu and Sheemish - (1911)
• How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles - (1911)
• A Story of Land and Sea - (1914)
• The Naming of Names: Notes on Lord Dunsany's Influence on Modern Fantasy Writers - essay by Lin Carter

An old woman who spends her days scrubbing the floors might be an unlikely damsel in distress, but Lord Dunsany proves once again his mastery of the fantastical. The Charwoman's Shadow is a beautiful tale of a sorcerer's apprentice who discovers his master's nefarious usage of stolen shadows, and vows to save the charwoman from her slavery.

Master Fantasist Lord Dunsany... unexcelled in the sorcery of crystalline singing prose, and supreme in the creation of a gorgeous world of exotic vision.

Table of Contents:

• About Over the Hills and Far Away, and Lord Dunsany: Happy Far-Off Things - essay by Lin Carter
• On Reading Lord Dunsany's "Book of Wonder" - (1920) - poem by H. P. Lovecraft
• Editor's Note (Tales of the World's Edge) - essay by Lin Carter
• The Journey of the King - [Pegana] - (1906)
• The Fall of Babbulkund - (1907)
• The Bird of the Difficult Eye - (1914)
• The Secret of the Sea - (1914)
• The Compromise of the King of the Golden Isles: A Play - (1923) - play
• Editor's Note (Tales of Far Away) - essay by Lin Carter
• The House of the Sphinx - (1911)
• Blagdaross - (1908)
• The Lonely Idol - (1915)
• An Archive of the Older Mysteries - (1919)
• The Loot of Loma - (1914)
• The Last Dream of Bwona Khubla - (1919)
• The Queen's Enemies - (1916)
• How Plash-Goo Came to the Land of None's Desire - (1916)
• The Prayer of Boob Aheera - (1919)
• East and West - (1916)
• How the Gods Avenged Meoul Ki Ning - (1917)
• The Man With the Golden Ear-rings - (1915)
• Poor Old Bill - (1910)
• Editor's Note (Tales of Near at Hand) - essay by Lin Carter
• The Bad Old Woman in Black - (1914)
• The Field - (1909)
• Where the Tides Ebb and Flow - (1908)
• The Little City - (1915)
• The Highwayman - (1908)
• In the Twilight - (1908)
• The Ghosts - (1908)
• The Doom of La Traviata - (1908)
• A Narrow Escape - (1912)
• The Lord of Cities - (1908)
• The Unhappy Body - (1910)
• The Gifts of the Gods - (1919)
• On the Dry Land - (1908)
• The Unpasturable Fields - (1915)
• Editor's Note (Tales Jorkens Told) - essay by Lin Carter
• The Curse of the Witch - [Jorkens] - (1932)
• Hunting the Unicorn - [Jorkens] - (1974)
• The Pale-Green Image - [Jorkens] - (1947)
• The Sacred City of Krakovlitz - [Jorkens] - (1941) - shortstory by Lord Dunsany
• At Sunset - poem by Lord Dunsany

Contents:

• vii - Introduction (The Complete Pegana) - (1998) - essay by S. T. Joshi
• 1 - The Gods of Pegana - [Pegana] - (1905) - collection
• 7 - The Gods of Pegana - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 8 - Of Skarl the Drummer - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 9 - Of the Making of the Worlds - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 11 - Of the Game of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 13 - The Chaunt of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 14 - The Sayings of Kib - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 15 - Concerning Sish - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 17 - The Sayings of Slid - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 20 - The Deeds of Mung - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 22 - The Chaunt of the Priests - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 23 - The Sayings of Limpang-Tung - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 25 - Of Yoharneth-Lahai - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 26 - Of Roon, the God of Going - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 30 - The Revolt of the Home Gods - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 33 - Of Dorozhand - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 35 - The Eye in the Waste - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 37 - Of the Thing That Is Neither God Nor Beast - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 40 - Yonath the Prophet - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 42 - Yug the Prophet - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 43 - Alhireth-Hotep the Prophet - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 44 - Kabok the Prophet - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 46 - Of the Calamity That Befel Yun-Ilara by the Sea - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 48 - Of How the Gods Whelmed Sidith - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 51 - Of How Imbaun Became High Prophet in Aradec - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 54 - Of How Imbaun Met Zodrak - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 57 - Pegana - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 60 - The Sayings of Imbaun - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 62 - Of How Imbaun Spake of Death to the King - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 63 - Of Ood - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 64 - The River - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 67 - The Bird of Doom and the End - [Pegana] - (1905) - shortstory
• 69 - Time and the Gods - (1906) - collection
• 73 - Time and the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• 77 - The Coming of the Sea - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• 82 - A Legend of the Dawn - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• 89 - The Vengeance of Men - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• 93 - When the Gods Slept - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• 100 - The King That Was Not - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• 103 - The Cave of Kai - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• 109 - The Sorrow of Search - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• 116 - The Men of Yarnith - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• 123 - For the Honour of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• 127 - Night and Morning - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• 130 - Usury - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• 133 - Mlideen - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• 135 - The Secret of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• 138 - The South Wind - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• 141 - In the Land of Time - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• 150 - The Relenting of Sarnidac - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• 155 - The Jest of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• 156 - The Dreams of a Prophet - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory (variant of The Dreams of the Prophet)
• 159 - The Journey of the King - [Pegana] - (1906) - novelette
• 195 - Beyond the Fields We Know - [Pegana] - (1919) - essay
• 199 - Idle Days on the Yann - [Beyond the Fields We Know - 1] - (1910) - shortstory
• 217 - A Shop in Go-by Street - [Beyond the Fields We Know - 2] - (1912) - shortstory
• 225 - The Avenger of Perdóndaris - [Beyond the Fields We Know - 3] - (1912) - shortstory

Without doubt Lord Dunsany was one of the most influential writers of fantasy fiction in twentieth century. His fiction is an acknowledged influence on entire generations of writers, ranging from H.P. Lovecraft to James Branch Cabell, from Clark Ashton Smith to Lin Carter. Although many of his most famous stories are longer in length, the miniature portraits of Fifty-One Tales (originally published in 1915 and sometimes reprinted under the title The Food of Death) are an ideal introduction to Dunsany. Nowhere is the jewel-like quality of his prose more evident than in the short tales, seminal works which runs the gamut from whimsy to fantasy to social satire.

Table of Contents:

• The Assignation - (1914)
• Charon - (1910)
• The Death of Pan - (1915)
• The Sphinx at Gizeh - (1909)
• The Hen - (1909)
• Wind and Fog - (1909)
• The Raft-Builders - (1909)
• The Workman - (1910)
• The Guest - (1910)
• Death and Odysseus - (1910)
• Death and the Orange - (1910)
• The Prayer of the Flowers - (1909)
• Time and the Tradesman - (1909)
• The Little City - (1910)
• The Unpasturable Fields - (1910)
• The Worm and the Angel - (1910)
• The Songless Country - (1910)
• The Latest Thing - (1910)
• The Demagogue and the Demi-Monde - (1913)
• The Giant Poppy - (1910)
• Roses - (1910)
• The Man with the Golden Ear-rings - (1911)
• The Dream of King Karna-Vootra - (1911)
• The Storm - (1911)
• A Mistaken Identity - (1910)
• The True History of the Hare and the Tortoise - (1910)
• Alone the Immortals - (1911)
• A Moral Little Tale - (1915)
• The Return of Song - (1910)
• Spring in Town - (1911)
• How the Enemy Came to Thlunrana? - (1910)
• A Losing Game - (1912)
• Taking Up Piccadilly - (1913)
• After the Fire - (1911)
• The City - (1913)
• The Food of Death - (1913)
• The Lonely Idol - (1912)
• The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts) - (1912)
• The Reward (I) - (1915)
• The Trouble in Leafy Green Street - (1912)
• The Mist - (1908)
• Furrow-Maker - (1912)
• Lobster Salad - (1912)
• The Return of the Exiles - (1912)
• Nature and Time - (1913)
• The Song of the Blackbird - (1915)
• The Messengers - (1913)
• The Three Tall Sons - (1913)
• Compromise - (1913)
• What We Have Come To - (1915)
• The Tomb of Pan - (1910)

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by Lord Dunsany
• The Tale of the Abu Laheeb
• The King of Sarahb
• How Jembu Played for Cambridge
• The Charm Against Thirst
• Our Distant Cousins
• A Large Diamond
• A Queer Island
• The Electric King
• A Drink at a Running Stream
• A Daughter of Rameses
• The Showman
• Mrs. Jorkens
• The Witch of the Willows

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by Lord Dunsany
• The Lost Romance
• The Curse of the Witch
• The Pearly Beach
• The Walk to Lingham
• The Escape from the Valley
• An August in the Red Sea
• The Bare Truth
• What Jorkens Has to Put Up With
• Ozymandias
• At the End of the Universe
• The Black Mamba
• In the Garden of Memories
• The Slugly Beast
• Earth's Secret
• The Persian Spell
• Stranger Than Fiction
• The Golden Gods
• The Correct Kit
• How Ryan Got Out of Russia
• The Club Secretary
• A Mystery of the East

Irish writer Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, the eighteenth Baron Dunsany, was one of English literature's most original talents. The author of many of the best fantastic tales in the language, he also greatly influenced other writers working in the genre. This collection of all the stories from two of his finest collections includes the famous "Three Sailors' Gambit," possibly the best chess story ever written, as well as "The Bad Old Woman in Black," "The Watch-Tower," "The Three Infernal Jokes," "The House of the Sphinx," and 28 other literary gems.

This book combines The Book of Wonder, originally published in 1912, and Tales of Wonder, published in 1916.

Contents:

v • The Book of Wonder • (1912) • collection by Lord Dunsany

v • Preface (The Book of Wonder) • (1912) • poem by Lord Dunsany

1 • The Bride of the Man-Horse • (1911) • short story by Lord Dunsany

5 • Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller • (1911) • short story by Lord Dunsany (variant of The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller, and of the Doom That Befell Him)

9 • The House of the Sphinx • (1911) • short story by Lord Dunsany

12 • Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men • (1911) • short story by Lord Dunsany (variant of The Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men)

16 • The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolater • (1910) • short story by Lord Dunsany

20 • The Loot of Bombasharna • (1910) • short story by Lord Dunsany

24 • Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance • (1911) • short story by Lord Dunsany

27 • The Quest of the Queen's Tears • (1911) • short story by Lord Dunsany

32 • The Hoard of the Gibbelins • (1911) • short story by Lord Dunsany

36 • How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles • (1911) • short story by Lord Dunsany

41 • How One Came, as Was Foretold, to the City of Never • (1911) • short story by Lord Dunsany

45 • The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap • (1911) • short story by Lord Dunsany

49 • Chu-Bu and Sheemish • (1911) • short story by Lord Dunsany

53 • The Wonderful Window • (1911) • short story by Lord Dunsany

58 • Epilogue (The Book of Wonder) • (1912) • essay by Lord Dunsany

59 • Tales of Wonder • (1916) • collection by Lord Dunsany (variant of The Last Book of Wonder)

59 • Preface (Tales of Wonder) • (1916) • essay by Lord Dunsany

61 • A Tale of London • (1912) • short story by Lord Dunsany

64 • Thirteen at Table • (1916) • short story by Lord Dunsany

72 • The City on Mallington Moor • (1913) • short story by Lord Dunsany

79 • Why the Milkman Shudders When He Perceives the Dawn • (1914) • short story by Lord Dunsany

82 • The Bad Old Woman in Black • (1914) • short story by Lord Dunsany

84 • The Bird of the Difficult Eye • (1914) • short story by Lord Dunsany

88 • The Long Porter's Tale • (1914) • short story by Lord Dunsany

93 • The Bureau d'Echange de Maux • (1915) • short story by Lord Dunsany

97 • A Story of Land and Sea • (1914) • novelette by Lord Dunsany

118 • The Loot of Loma • (1914) • short story by Lord Dunsany

122 • A Tale of the Equator • (1914) • short story by Lord Dunsany

125 • A Narrow Escape • (1912) • short story by Lord Dunsany

127 • The Watch-Tower • (1912) • short story by Lord Dunsany

130 • The Secret of the Sea • (1914) • short story by Lord Dunsany

134 • How Plash-Goo Came to the Land of None's Desire • (1916) • short story by Lord Dunsany

136 • The Three Sailors' Gambit • (1916) • short story by Lord Dunsany

144 • How Ali Came to the Black Country • (1914) • short story by Lord Dunsany

148 • The Exiles Club • (1915) • short story by Lord Dunsany (variant of The Exiles' Club)

153 • The Three Infernal Jokes • (1915) • short story by Lord Dunsany