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Lord Dunsany


(Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett)
UK flag (1878 - 1957)

Baron Dunsany was born in London in 1878, the scion of an Anglo-Irish family that could trace its ancestry to the twelfth century. During his life Dunsany distinguished himself as both an author and a dramatist, he once had five plays running concurrently on Broadway, and is now recognised as a leading figure in the development of modern fantasy literature. His works include The Book of Wonder (1912), Plays of Gods and Men (1917) and The Curse of the Wise Woman (1933).
 

Genres: Fantasy
 
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Anthologies containing stories by Lord Dunsany
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The Weird Cat (2023)
edited by
S T Joshi and Katherine Kerestman
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Our Haunted Shores (2022)
Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles
(British Library Tales of the Weird, book 31)
edited by
Emily Alder, Jimmy Packham and Joan Passey
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Headstones (2022)
Creepy Tales from the Graveyard
edited by
Rayne Hall

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