Eric Rücker Eddison ~10 hr read

The lords of Demonland wage an ages-long war against King Gorice of Witchland, a titanic struggle of heroes, sorcery, and doom across a gorgeous, invented world beyond the moon.

E. R. Eddison's 1922 novel is a monumental, foundational classic of high fantasy. Sumptuous, archaic, magnificent. Read it for one of the towering achievements of the genre, a heroic epic of gods and warriors told in glorious Jacobean prose, beloved by Tolkien and Lewis, whose grandeur and strange circular ending remain utterly unique.

In its time

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

Reading it

~10 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Keith Henderson