The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany Geek that I am, I actually read The Book of Wonder to prepare for the Tolkien Professor’s Faerie & Fantasy podcast seminar that covers the book. I am rather conflicted about Lord Dunsany in general and this book in particular. After finishing the first half I found that […]
Read MoreTerry Lago (GUEST)´s rating: 3 | Lord Dunsany | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Reposting to include Sandy’s new review. The King of Elfland’s Daughter by Lord Dunsany After reading about Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter I went in search of it and found it at my university library. Reading it was quite a different experience for me, but people who aren’t prepared for the style of […]
Read MoreRebecca Fisher and Sandy Ferber´s rating: 5 | Lord Dunsany | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
In the Land of Time: And Other Fantasy Tales by Lord Dunsany In In the Land of Time: And Other Fantasy Tales (1986), literary critic and editor S.T. Joshi has compiled a large collection of Lord Dunsany’s short fiction that spans fifty years and is representative of his entire oeuvre. As someone who is not […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4.5 | Lord Dunsany | Audio, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about. “One Last, Great Adventure” by Ellen Kushner and Ysabeau S. Wilce (2013, free at Clarkesworld in Nov. 2015 issue, $6.99 for paperback magazine issue) “One […]
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And the Darkness Falls edited by Boris Karloff In 1943, Boris Karloff was induced by his old friend Edmund Speare, an English professor and book editor, to assist in putting together an anthology of horror stories; as Speare put it, “a collection of bogey stories selected by a professional bogey man.” The resulting volume, Tales […]
Read MoreSandy Ferber´s rating: 5 | Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, H.P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany | Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer I haven’t actually read every page of The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories, yet I’m giving it my highest recommendation. Edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, Master and Mistress of Weird, The Weird is 1126 pages long […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 5 | Abraham Merritt, Caitlín R. Kiernan, China Mieville, Clark Ashton Smith, Clive Barker, Daniel Abraham, Elizabeth Hand, Fritz Leiber, George R.R. Martin, H.P. Lovecraft, Harlan Ellison, Haruki Murakami, Jeff VanderMeer, K.J. Bishop, Kelly Link, Laird Barron, Lisa Tuttle, Liz Williams, Lord Dunsany, Lucius Shepard, M. John Harrison, Margo Lanagan, Mervyn Peake, Michael Chabon, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Stephen King, Tanith Lee | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
The Jorkens Tales — (1931-1954) These are a collection of supernatural tales, now reissued in three volumes. Selected novels and collections: The Complete Pegana — (1905-1906) A collection of all the stories about Dunsany’s Pegana. This edition includes the complete stories from The Gods of Pegana (1905) and Time and the Gods (1906), plus three […]
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