Dunsany - Lord Dunsany a comprehensive bibliography

S. T. JOSHI (A.B., A.M., Brown University) is the author of The Weird Tale (1990), The Modern Weird Tale (2001), I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (2010), Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (2012), and other volumes. He has written the critical study Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination (1995) and prepared editions of Dunsanys In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales (2004) and The Complete Jorkens (200405). He has also prepared editions of the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, M. R. James, and other writers of weird fiction. He has also written Gods Defenders: What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong (2003), The Angry Right (2006), and The Unbelievers: The Evolution of Modern Atheism (2011). He is the editor of the Lovecraft Annual, the Weird Fiction Review, and the American Rationalist.

DARRELL SCHWEITZER (B.S., M.A., Villanova University) is the author of the first complete study of Lord Dunsanys work, Pathways to Elfland: The Writings of Lord Dunsany (1989), and editor two volumes of previously uncollected Dunsany material, of The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer and Other Fantasms (1980) and The Ginger Cat and Other Lost Plays (2005). He is a critic and fantasy-fiction writer, author of The Shattered Goddess (1982), Tom OBedlams Night Out (1985), The White Isle (1990), Transients and Other Disquieting Stories (1993), The Mask of the Sorcerer (1995), and many more, including, most recently, Echoes of the Goddess (2013) and The Emperor of the Ancient Word (2013). He is also editor of such critical symposia as Discovering H. P. Lovecraft (1987), Discovering Modern Horror Fiction (1985), The Thomas Ligotti Reader (2002), and The Robert E. Howard Reader (2010). He is the former co-editor of Weird Tales, for which he and publisher George Scithers won the World Fantasy Award in 1992. He has since edited anthologies, including The Secret History of Vampires (2007), Cthulhus Reign (2010), and Full Moon City (with Martin Greenberg, 2010).

1. The Gods of Pegna

   a.1. London: Elkin Mathews, [October] 1905. Illustrations by S. H. Sime.

   a.2. London: Pegna Press [Elkin Mathews], 1911.

   a.3. London: Elkin Mathews, 1919.

   b.1. Boston: John W. Luce & Co., [c. October 1916]. Illustrations by S. H. Sime.

   b.2. Boston: John W. Luce & Co., [1917]. Part of six-volume boxed Special Gift Edition; not sold separately.

   c. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2002.

   d. n.p.: Alan Rodgers Books, 2006.

   e. Charleston, SC: Bibliobazaar, 2009.

   f. n.p.: Book Jungle, 2009.

   g. n.p.: General Books, 2010.

   h. n.p.: Prentum Press, 2011.

   i. n.p.: ResonanceBookWorks, 2013.

   Contents: Preface; [Prologue]; The Gods of Pegna; Of Skarl the Drummer; Of the Making of the Worlds; Of the Game of the Gods; The Chaunt of the Gods; The Sayings of Kib; Concerning Sish; The Sayings of Slid; The Deeds of Mung; The Chaunt of the Priests; The Sayings of Limpang-Tung; Of Yoharneth-Lahai; Of Roon, the God of Going; The Revolt of the Home Gods; Of Dorozhand; The Eye in the Waste; Of the Thing That Is Neither God Nor Beast; Yonath the Prophet; Yug the Prophet; Alhireth-Hotep the Prophet; Kabok the Prophet; Of the Calamity That Befel Yn-Ilra by the Sea, and of the Building of the Tower of the Ending of Days; Of How the Gods Whelmed Sidith; Of How Imbaun Became High Prophet in Aradec of All the Gods Save One; Of How Imbaun Met Zodrak; Pegna; The Sayings of Imbaun; Of How Imbaun Spake of Death to the King; Of Ood; The River; The Bird of Doom and the End.

   
   
2. Time and the Gods

   a. London: William Heinemann, [September] 1906. Illustrations by S. H. Sime.

   b.1. Boston: John W. Luce & Co., 1913. Illustrations by S. H. Sime.

   b.2. Boston: John W. Luce & Co., [1917].

   b.3. Boston: John W. Luce & Co., [1917]. Part of six-volume boxed Special Gift Edition; not sold separately.

   c.1. London & New York: G. P. Putnams Sons, 1922. Illustrations by S. H. Sime. 250 numbered copies, signed by Dunsany and Sime.

   c.2. London & New York: G. P. Putnams Sons, February 1923.

   d. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1970 (facsimile of b.1).

   e. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2002.

   f. n.p.: Book Jungle, 2007.

   g. Rockville, MD: Arc Manor, 2008 (as Times and the Gods).

   Contents: Preface; Time and the Gods; The Coming of the Sea; A Legend of the Dawn; The Vengeance of Men; When the Gods Slept; The King That Was Not; The Cave of Kai; The Sorrow of Search; The Men of Yarnith; For the Honour of the Gods; Night and Morning; Usury; Mlideen; The Secret of the Gods; The South Wind; In the Land of Time; The Relenting of Sarnidac; The Jest of the Gods; The Dreams of the Prophet; The Journey of the King.

   Notes. In c. Dunsany has added a new introduction; also, in c.1 The Secret of the Gods has been retitled The Protector of the Secret.

   
   
3. The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories

   a. London: George Allen & Sons, [October] 1908. Illustrations by S. H. Sime.

   b.l. Boston: John W. Luce & Co., [1916].

   b.2. Boston: John W. Luce & Co., [1917]. Part of six-volume boxed Special Gift Edition; not sold separately.

   c. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2005.

   d.1. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger, [2006?].

   d.2. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger, 2010.

   e. n.p.: General Books, 2010.

   f. Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011.

   Contents: The Sword of Welleran; The Fall of Babbulkund; The Kith of the Elf-Folk; The Highwayman; In the Twilight; The Ghosts; The Whirlpool; The Hurricane; The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth; The Lord of Cities; The Doom of La Traviata; On the Dry Land.

   
   
4. The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth

   a. Sheffield: William F. Northend (The School of Arts Press), 18 March 1910.

   Notes. Decorations by William F. Northend. 30 numbered copies.

   
   
5. A Dreamers Tales

   a. London: George Allen & Sons, [September] 1910. Illustrations by S. H. Sime.

   b.1. Boston: John W. Luce & Co., [1916].

   b.2. Boston: John W. Luce & Co., [1917]. Part of six-volume boxed Special Gift Edition; not sold separately.

   c. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1969 (facsimile of b.1).

   d. Philadelphia: Owlswick Press, 1979. Illustrations by Tim Kirk. Foreword by Martin Gardner.

   e. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2002.

   f. Rockville, MD: Serenity, 2009.

   g. n.p.: International Business Publications, 2009.

   h. n.p.: General Books, 2010.

   i. Seaside, OR: Watchmaker, 2010.

   j. Palm Springs, CA: Wexford College Press, 2010.

   Contents: Preface; Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean; Blagdaross; The Madness of Andelsprutz; Where the Tides Ebb and Flow; Bethmoora; Idle Days on the Yann; The Sword and the Idol; The Idle City; The Hashish Man; Poor Old Bill; The Beggars; Carcassonne; In Zaccarath; The Field; The Day of the Poll; The Unhappy Body.
   

6. Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany

   a. Churchtown, Ireland: The Cuala Press, [October] 1912. 250 copies.

   b. [Shannon: Irish University Press, 1971] (facsimile of a.).

   c. n.p.: gypan Press, [2006?].

   d. n.p.: Alan Rodgers Books, 2006.

   e. Charleston, SC: Bibliobazaar, 2009.

   f. n.p.: General Books, 2010.

   Contents: Introduction by W. B. Yeats; The Gods of the Mountain; Act I of King Argimns and the Unknown Warrior; The Fall of Babbulkund; The Sphinx at Gizeh; Idle Days on the Yann; A Miracle (i.e. The Idle City [extract]); The Castle of Time (i.e. In the Land of Time [extract]).