Celebrating the Birth . . . Lord Dunsany

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957)

Coming just before Lovecraft and Howard, there was Dunsany. He is probably best for his dark fantasy short story "The Hoard of the Gibbelins" which is available in The Book of Wonder, linked below and for his classic fantasy novel The King of Elfland's Daughter, unfortunately not available.  If you like Poe and/or Lovecraft, there are likely Dunsany stories that will appeal to you. Below are some of the Dunsany stories available.




Fiction
At Project Gutenberg

• Book of Wonder
• Don Rodriguez; Chronicles of Shadow Valley
• Dreamer's Tales
• Fifty-One Tales
•  Five Plays
• Gods of Pegana
• If: a play in four acts
• Plays of Gods and Men
• Plays of Near & Far
• Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany 
• Sword of Welleran and Other Stories
• Tales of Three Hemispheres
• Tales of War
• Tales of Wonder
• Time and the Gods
• Unhappy Far-Off Things

Audio Versions
At LibriVox:

• "Bureau d'Echange de Maux, The"
• "Charon" 
• "Chu-Bu and Sheemish" 
• "Exiles Club, The"
• "Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth, The"
• "Ghosts, The"
• "Guest, The"
• "Hoard of the Gibbelins, The"
• "How Ali Came to the Black Country"
• "In Zaccarath"
• "Sword of Welleran, The"
• "Sword of Welleran, The" (Version 2)
• "Watch-tower, The"
• "Bad Old Woman in Black, The" 
• "Book of Wonder, The"
• "Fame and the Poet"
• "Fifty-One Tales" 
• "Gods of Pegana, The"
• "Highwaymen, The"
• "Thirteen at Table"
• Time and the Gods"

At SFFaudio:

• "The Highwayman"
• "The Ghosts"
• "The Raft-Builders"

Old Time Radio
• At KPFA: The Black Mass official site - "Tales by Lord Dunsany" (Lobster Salad, The Workman, The Charm against Thirst,  How the Enemy Came to Thlunrana, The Dream of King Karna-Vootra,  Charon) and "The Witch of the Willows"

• By Columbia Workshop: At Internet Archive: (right click each to download)

• "The Gods of the Mountain" 
• "Night at the Inn