Master Fantasist Lord Dunsany... unexcelled in the sorcery of crystalline singing prose, and supreme in the creation of a gorgeous world of exotic vision.

Contents:

  • Happy Far-Off Things, an introduction by Lin Carter
  • On Reading Lord Dunsany, a tribute by H. P. Lovecraft (poem)
  • I. Tales of the World's Edge
    • Editor's Note
    • The Journey of the King
    • The Fall of Babbulkund
    • The Bird of the Difficult Eye
    • The Secret of the Sea
    • The Compromise of the King of the Golden Isles (play)
  • II. Tales of the Far Away
    • Editor's Note
    • The House of the Sphinx
    • Blagdaross
    • The Lonely Idol
    • The Archive of the Older Mysteries
    • The Loot of Loma
    • The Last Dream of Bwona Khubla
    • The Queen's Enemies (play)
    • How Plash-Goo Came to the Land of None's Desire
    • The Prayer of Boob Aheera
    • East and West
    • How the Gods Avenged Meoul Ki Ning
    • The Man with the Golden Ear-Rings
    • Poor Old Bill
  • III. Tales of Near At Hand
    • Editor's Note
    • The Bad Old Woman in Black
    • The Field
    • Where the Tides Ebb and Flow
    • The Little City
    • The Highwayman
    • In the Twilight
    • The Ghosts
    • The Doom of La Traviata
    • A Narrow Escape
    • The Lord of Cities
    • The Unhappy Body
    • The Gifts of the Gods
    • On the Dry Land
    • The Unpasturable Fields
  • IV. Tales Jorkens Told
    • Editor's Note
    • The Curse of the Witch
    • Hunting the Unicorn
    • The Pale-Green Image
    • The Sacred City of Krakovlitz
  • At Sunset (poem)
Published
1974
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