Lord Dunsany

Lord Dunsany developed imagined mythologies, remote kingdoms and compact wonder tales across fiction and drama. Born Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, he published The Gods of Pegāna in 1905 as his first book, introducing a created pantheon in a deliberately archaic style. The Book of Wonder and Fifty-One Tales continued his short-form fantasy, often reaching a complete fable in only a few pages. His longer fiction includes The King of Elfland’s Daughter, published in 1924, and The Charwoman’s Shadow, a 1926 novel set in a magical version of Spain. Dunsany’s books helped establish his reputation as an early architect of modern literary fantasy. He also wrote plays, essays and the conversational Jorkens stories during a career that extended to his death in 1957.