Lord Dunsany 2 hr 36 min read

A collection of stage plays near and far, fantastical dramas of gods, kings, and the strange edges of the imagination, from the master of literary fantasy.

Lord Dunsany's 1922 collection gathers his poetic, imaginative plays for the theatre. Elegant, haunting, richly fantastic. Read it for the stagecraft of one of fantasy's founding voices, spare and beautiful dramas of the wondrous and the fateful.

In its time

Published in 1922, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

2 hr 36 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).