Some Short Stories of Lord Dunsany (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

Lord Dunsany was one of Ireland''s finest writers. At the peak of his career he was a true literary celebrity, spending time with authors such as W. B. Yeats and Rudyard Kipling, and publishing over sixty books. Arthur C. Clarke called him ΓÇ£one of the greatest writers of [the 20th] century,ΓÇ¥ and H. P. Lovecraft described him as being ΓÇ£unexcelled in the sorcery of crystalline singing prose, and supreme in the creation of a gorgeous and languorous world of incandescently exotic vision.ΓÇ¥ Collected here are some of Dunsany''s greatest tales, including ''The Magician'', ''The Field Where the Satyrs Dance'' and more.