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Lord Dunsany

(Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett)

(1878 - 1957)

About Lord Dunsany

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).

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Series

Jorkens
1. The Travel Tales of Mr Joseph Jorkens (1931)
2. Jorkens Remembers Africa (1934)
3. Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey (1940)
4. The Fourth Book of Jorkens (1948)
5. Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey (1954)

Novels

Omnibus

The Collected Jorkens Vol. 1 (2004)
The Collected Jorkens Vol. 3 (2004)
The Collected Jorkens Vol. 2 (2004)

Collections

The Gods of Pegana (1905)
Time and the Gods (1906)
The Sword of Welleran: And Other Tales of Enchantment (1908)
A Dreamer's Tales: And Other Stories (1910)
The Book of Wonder (1912)
Fifty-One Tales (1915)
Tales of Wonder (1916)
Tales of War (1918)
Tales of Three Hemispheres (1919)
Unhappy Far-Off Things (1919)
Gods, Men and Ghosts: The Best Supernatural Fiction of Lord Dunsany (1940)
Five Modern Plays (1940)
The Man Who Ate the Phoenix (1949)
Little Tales of Smethers: And Other Stories (1952)
At the Edge of the World (1970)
Beyond the Fields We Know (1972)
Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany (1972)
The Hashish Man: And Other Stories (1972)
Over the Hills and Far Away (1974)
Food of Death: Fifty-One Tales (1974)
Plays of Gods and Men (1977)
The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer: and Other Fantasms (1980)
The Complete Pegana (1986)
Wonder Tales (2003)
In the Land of Time: And Other Fantasy Tales (2004)
Idle Days On The Yann and Other Stories (2004)
The Last Book of Wonder (2004)
The Ginger Cat and Other Lost Plays (2005)

Chapbooks

The Tent of the Arabs

Plays

If (1922)
A Night at an Inn (1997)

Non fiction

Patches of Sunlight (1938)
While The Sirens Slept (1944)
The Sirens Wake (1945)
Arthur C. Clarke and Lord Dunsany: A Correspondence (1998) (with Arthur C Clarke)

Anthologies containing stories by Lord Dunsany

The Silver Ship (1932)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 3rd Series (1934)
The Mystery Book (1934)
The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936)
And the Darkness Falls (1946)
The Moonlight Traveller (1949)
Night's Yawning Peal (1952)
The Second Ghost Book (1952)
The 3rd Ghost Book (1955)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 4th Series (1955)
Spine Chillers (1961)
The 3rd Pan Book of Horror Stories (1962)
Stories of Suspense (1963)
The Spell of Seven (1965)
The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1966)
The Nightmare Reader Volume 1 (1973)
Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors (1974)
Realms of Wizardry (1976)
The 14th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1978)
Black Water (1984)
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984)
The Book of Fantasy (1988)
The Cthulhu Cycle (1996)
Fantasy Stories (1996)
The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy (1996)
The Innsmouth Cycle (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1998)
aka The Fantasy Hall of Fame

Short stories

	Of Yoharneth-Lahai (1900)
	Alhireth-Hotep the Prophet (1905)
	The Bird of Doom and The End (1905)
	The Chaunt of the Gods (1905)
	The Chaunt of the Priests (1905)
	Concerning Sish (1905)
	The Deeds of Mung (1905)
	The Eye in the Waste (1905)
	The Gods of Pegana (1905)
	Kabok the Prophet (1905)
	Of Dorozhand (1905)
	Of How Imbaun Became High Prophet in Aradec (1905)
	Of How Imbaun Met Zodrak (1905)
	Of How Imbaun Spake of Death to the King (1905)
	Of How the Gods Whelmed Sidith (1905)
	Of Odd (1905)
	Of Roon, the God of Going (1905)
	Of Skarl the Drummer (1905)
	Of the Calamity That Befel Yun-Ilara by the Sea (1905)
	Of the Game of the Gods (1905)
	Of the Making of the Worlds (1905)
	Of the Thing That Is Neither God Nor Beast (1905)
	Pegana (1905)
	The Revolt of the Home Gods (1905)
	The Rive (1905)
	The Sayings of Imbaun (1905)
	The Sayings of Kib (1905)
	The Sayings of Limpang-Tung (1905)
	The Sayings of Slid (1905)
	Yonath the Prophet (1905)
	Yug the Prophet (1905)
	The Cave of Kai (1906)
	The Coming of the Sea (1906)
	The Dreams of a Prophet (1906)
	For the Honour of the Gods (1906)
	In the Land of Time (1906)
	The Jest of the Gods (1906)
	The Journey of the King (1906)
	The King That Was Not (1906)
	A Legend of the Dawn (1906)
	The Men of Yarnith (1906)
	Mildeen (1906)
	Mlideen (1906)
	Night and Morning (1906)
	Of the Gods of Averon (1906)
	The Opulence of Yahn (1906)
	The Relenting of Sarnidac (1906)
	The Secret of the Gods (1906)
	The Sorrow of Search (1906)
	The South Wind (1906)
	Time and the Gods (1906)
	Usury (1906)
	The Vengeance of Men (1906)
	When the Gods Slept (1906)
	Bethmoora (1908)
	The Doom of La Traviata (1908)
	The Fall of Babbulkund (1908)
	The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth (1908)
	The Ghosts (1908)
	The Highwayman (1908)
	The Hurricane (1908)
	In the Twilight (1908)
	The Kith of the Elf-Folk (1908)
	The Lord of Cities (1908)
	The Madness of Andelsprutz (1908)
	On the Dry Land (1908)
	The Sword of Welleran (1908)
	Where the Tides Ebb and Flow (1908)
	The Whirlpool (1908)
	The Idle City (1909)
	Carcassonne (1910)
	The Hashish Man (1910)
	Idle Days on the Yann (1910)
	In Zaccarath (1910)
	Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean (1910)
	Poor Old Bill (1910)
	The Hoard of the Gibbelins (1911)
	The Bride of the Man-Horse (1912)
	Chu-bu and Sheemish (1912)
	The Coronation of Mr Thomas Shap (1912)
	The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller, and of the Doom That Befell Him (1912)
	The House of the Sphinx (1912)
	How One Came, As Was Foretold, to the City of Never (1912)
	How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles (1912)
	The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolater (1912)
	The Loot of Bombasharna (1912)
	Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance (1912)
	The Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men (1912)
	The Quest of the Queen's Tears (1912)
	The Wonderful Window (1912)
	After the Fire (1915)
	The Assignation (1915)
	The Dream of King Karna-Vootra (1915)
	The Exiles' Club (1915)
	How the Enemy Came to Thlunrana (1915)
	A Story of Land and Sea (1915)
	A Tale of London (1915)
	The Three Infernal Jokes (1915)
	The Bureau d'Echange de Maux (1916)
	A Day at the Edge of the World (1916)
	Erlathdronion (1916)
	The Exile's Club (1916)
	The Field (1916)
	How Plash-Goo Came to the Land of None's Desire (1916)
	A Narrow Escape (1916)
	The Secret of the Sea (1916)
	A Tale of the Equator (1916)
	Thirteen at Table (1916)
	The Three Sailors' Gambit (1916)
	A Night at an Inn (1917)
	The Avenger of Perdondaris (1919)
	Beyond the Fields We Know (1919)
	How the Dwarfs Rose Up in War (1919)
	A Shop in Go-by Street (1919)
	Our Distant Cousins (1931)
	Two Bottles of Relish (1932)
	How Ryan Got Out of Russia (1934)
	A Mystery of the East (1934)
	The Walk to Lingham (1934)
	Jorkens Consults a Prophet (1940)
	The Neapolitan Ice (1940)
	The Sign (1940)
	By Command of Pharoah (1948)
	The Cleverness of Dr Caber (1948)
	A Cricket Problem (1948)
	A Deal with the Devil (1948)
	The English Magnifico (1948)
	The Expulsion (1948)
	Fairy Gold (1948)
	The Haunting of Halahanstown (1948)
	In a Dim Room (1948)
	The Ingratiating Smile (1948)
	Jarton's Disease (1948)
	Jorkens in Witch Wood (1948)
	Jorkens Leaves Prison (1948)
	Jorkens Practises Medicine and Magic (1948)
	Jorkens' Ride (1948)
	The Khamseen (1948)
	The Last Bull (1948)
	A Life's Work (1948)
	Lost (1948)
	Making Fine Weather (1948)
	Mgamu (1948)
	The Pale-Green Image (1948)
	The Rebuff (1948)
	A Royal Dinner (1948)
	The Sacred City of Krakovlitz (1948)
	The Secret of the Sphinx (1948)
	The Strange Drug of Dr Caber (1948)
	Strategy at the Billiards Club (1948)
	The Warning (1948)
	The Welcome (1948)
	Misadventure (1954)
	Autumn Cricket
	Charon
	A Fight with Knives
	The Ghost of the Valley
	The Guest
	A Large Diamond
	The Magician
	On the Other Side of the Sun
	Out West
	Spring in Town
	Wind and Fog
	The Wind in the Wood

Books about Lord Dunsany

Biography of Lord Dunsany (1972) by Mark Amory
Pathways to Elfland: The Writings of Lord Dunsany (1989) by Darrell Schweitzer
The Weird Tale (1990) by S T Joshi
Lord Dunsany (1993) by S T Joshi and Darrell Schweitzer

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