Lord Dunsany 1 hr 36 min read

The Gods of the Mountain, Idle Days on the Yann, The Fall of Babbulkund, a garland of the master fantasist's tales and plays, chosen to show his shimmering invented mythologies.

Lord Dunsany's writings (this 1912 selection, introduced by W. B. Yeats) gather the work of the towering pioneer of modern fantasy. Lyrical, dreamlike, endlessly influential. Read it for the wellspring of imaginative fantasy, Dunsany's gods, wanderers, and dream-cities that inspired Tolkien, Lovecraft, and Le Guin.

In its time

Published in 1912, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

1 hr 36 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).