Dunsany’s Preface to this book is brief in the extreme: I hope for this book that it may come into the hands of those that were kind to my others…

The book is a series of short stories, some of them linked by Dunsany’s invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegana, which were the focus of his earlier collections…

Lord Dunsany was an Irish poet and dramatist. He spent his life living in the famous Dunsany castle in Ireland. This collection of 19 short fantasy stories is also published…