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The poetic style and sweeping grandeur of The King of Elfland's Daughter has made it one of the most beloved fantasy novels of our time, a masterpiece that influenced some of the greatest contemporary fantasists. The heartbreaking story of a marriage between a mortal man and an elf princess is a masterful tapestry of the fairy tale following the "happily ever after."

Table of Contents:

• About "At the Edge of the World" and Lord Dunsany: The Dreams of Mana-Yood-Sushai - essay by Lin Carter
• The Cave of Kai - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• Of the Gods of Averon - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory (variant of "The Sorrow of Search")
• Mlideen - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• The King That Was Not - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• The Men of Yarnith - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• In the Land of Time - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• Time and the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory
• The Opulence of Yahn - [Pegana] - (1906) - shortstory (variant of "Usury")
• The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth - (1908) - shortstory
• Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean - (1908) - shortstory
• The Idle City - (1909) - shortstory
• Bethmoora - (1908) - shortstory
• Idle Days on the Yann - [Beyond the Fields We Know - 1] - (1910) - shortstory
• The Hashish Man - (1910) - shortstory
• Carcassonne - (1910) - shortstory
• In Zaccarath - (1909) - shortstory
• The Dream of King Karna-Vootra - (1915) - shortstory
• How the Enemy Came to Thlunrana - (1915) - shortstory
• The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller, and of the Doom That Befell Him - (1911) - shortstory
• A Shop in Go-by Street - [Beyond the Fields We Know - 2] - (1912) - shortstory
• The Avenger of Perdóndaris - [Beyond the Fields We Know - 3] - (1912) - shortstory
• How the Dwarfs Rose Up in War - (1919) - shortstory (variant of "A Pretty Quarrel)"
• The Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men - (1911) - shortstory
• The Loot of Bombasharna - (1912) - shortstory
• The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolater - (1910) - shortstory
• The Bride of the Man-Horse - (1911) - shortstory
• The Quest of the Queen's Tears - (1911) - shortstory
• How One Came, as Was Foretold, to the City of Never - (1911) - shortstory
• A Day at the Edge of the World - (1916) - shortstory (variant of "The Long Porter's Tale" 1914)
• Erlathdronion - (1916) - shortstory (variant of "A Tale of the Equator" 1914)
• Epilogue to "The Book of Wonder" - (1912) - essay
• Afterword (The Edge of the World) - essay by Lin Carter

Lord Dunsany's first novel, Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley, "conveys its young disinherited protagonist through a fantasized Spain, gifting him with a Sancho Panza companion, good luck with magicians, and a castle." [The Encyclopedia of Fantasy] It is a landmark tale for Dunsany, beginning his move from the otherworldly short stories for which his reputation is justly famous to novels, such as the follow-up The King of Elfland's Daughter and The Charwoman's Shadow. L. Sprague de Camp has said: "Dunsany was the second writer (William Morris in the 1880s being the first) fully to exploit the possibilities of... adventurous fantasy laid in imaginary lands, with gods, witches, spirits, and magic, like children."

Beyond the fields we know, in the Lands of Dream, lies the Valley of the Yann where the mighty river of that name, rising in the Hills of Hap, idling its way by massive dream-evoking amethyst cliffs, orchid-laden forests, and ancient mysterious cities, comes to the Gates of Yann and passes to the sea.

Table of Contents:

• About Beyond the Fields We Know and Lord Dunsany: Return to the World's Edge - essay by Lin Carter
• The Gods of Pegana - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of Skarl the Drummer - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of the Making of the Worlds - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of the Game of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The Chaunt of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The Sayings of Kib - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Concerning Sish - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The Sayings of Slid - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The Deeds of Mung - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The Chaunt of the Priests - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The Sayings of Limpang-Tung - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of Yoharneth-Lahai - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of Roon, the God of Going - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The Revolt of the Home Gods - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of Dorozhand - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The Eye in the Waste - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of the Thing That Is Neither God Nor Beast - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Yonath the Prophet - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Yug the Prophet - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Alhireth-Hotep the Prophet - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Kabok the Prophet - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of the Calamity That Befel Yun-Ilara by the Sea - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of How the Gods Whelmed Sidith - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of How Imbaun Became High Prophet in Aradec - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of How Imbaun Met Zodrak - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Pegana - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The Sayings of Imbaun - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of How Imbaun Spake of Death to the King - [Pegana] - (1905)
• Of Ood - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The River - [Pegana] - (1905)
• The Bird of Doom and the End - [Pegana] - (1905)
• How Slid Made War Against the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906)
• The Vengeance of Men - [Pegana] - (1906)
• When the Gods Slept - [Pegana] - (1906)
• For the Honour of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906)
• The Wisdom of Ord - [Pegana] - (1972)
• Night and Morning - [Pegana] - (1906)
• The Secret of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906)
• The Relenting of Sarnidac - [Pegana] - (1906)
• The Jest of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906)
• The Dreams of a Prophet - [Pegana] - (1906)
• King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior - (1911) - play
• In the Sahara - (1929) - poem
• Songs From an Evil Wood - (1917) - poem
• The Riders - (1928) - poem
• The Watchers - (1929) - poem
• The Enchanted People - (1928) - poem
• The Happy Isles - (1929) - poem
• A Word in Season - (1929) - poem
• The Quest - (1929) - poem
• The Kith of the Elf-Folk - (1908)
• The Sword of Welleran - (1908)
• The Madness of Andelsprutz - (1908)
• The Sword and the Idol - (1909)
• Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance - (1911)
• Chu-Bu and Sheemish - (1911)
• How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles - (1911)
• A Story of Land and Sea - (1914)
• The Naming of Names: Notes on Lord Dunsany's Influence on Modern Fantasy Writers - essay by Lin Carter

An old woman who spends her days scrubbing the floors might be an unlikely damsel in distress, but Lord Dunsany proves once again his mastery of the fantastical. The Charwoman's Shadow is a beautiful tale of a sorcerer's apprentice who discovers his master's nefarious usage of stolen shadows, and vows to save the charwoman from her slavery.

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

Table of Contents:

• About Over the Hills and Far Away, and Lord Dunsany: Happy Far-Off Things - essay by Lin Carter
• On Reading Lord Dunsany's "Book of Wonder" - (1920) - poem by H. P. Lovecraft
• Editor's Note (Tales of the World's Edge) - essay by Lin Carter
• The Journey of the King - [Pegana] - (1906)
• The Fall of Babbulkund - (1907)
• The Bird of the Difficult Eye - (1914)
• The Secret of the Sea - (1914)
• The Compromise of the King of the Golden Isles: A Play - (1923) - play
• Editor's Note (Tales of Far Away) - essay by Lin Carter
• The House of the Sphinx - (1911)
• Blagdaross - (1908)
• The Lonely Idol - (1915)
• An Archive of the Older Mysteries - (1919)
• The Loot of Loma - (1914)
• The Last Dream of Bwona Khubla - (1919)
• The Queen's Enemies - (1916)
• How Plash-Goo Came to the Land of None's Desire - (1916)
• The Prayer of Boob Aheera - (1919)
• East and West - (1916)
• How the Gods Avenged Meoul Ki Ning - (1917)
• The Man With the Golden Ear-rings - (1915)
• Poor Old Bill - (1910)
• Editor's Note (Tales of Near at Hand) - essay by Lin Carter
• The Bad Old Woman in Black - (1914)
• The Field - (1909)
• Where the Tides Ebb and Flow - (1908)
• The Little City - (1915)
• The Highwayman - (1908)
• In the Twilight - (1908)
• The Ghosts - (1908)
• The Doom of La Traviata - (1908)
• A Narrow Escape - (1912)
• The Lord of Cities - (1908)
• The Unhappy Body - (1910)
• The Gifts of the Gods - (1919)
• On the Dry Land - (1908)
• The Unpasturable Fields - (1915)
• Editor's Note (Tales Jorkens Told) - essay by Lin Carter
• The Curse of the Witch - [Jorkens] - (1932)
• Hunting the Unicorn - [Jorkens] - (1974)
• The Pale-Green Image - [Jorkens] - (1947)
• The Sacred City of Krakovlitz - [Jorkens] - (1941) - shortstory by Lord Dunsany
• At Sunset - poem by Lord Dunsany