Over the Hills and Far Away

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)