Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany (24 July 1878–25 October 1957) was an Irish writer and dramatist notable for his work in fantasy and horror.

Bibliography

The catalogue of everything that Dunsany wrote during a 50-year writing career is quite extensive, and is especially fraught with pitfalls, owing to two things: first, Dunsany's many original books of collected short stories were later followed by numerous reprint collections that included some of this and some of that but nothing new; and second, many later collections bore titles distressingly similar to somewhat different original books.

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The following is a partial list compiled from various sources.

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Short-story collections

Original

• The Gods of Peg?na (1905)
• Time and the Gods (1906)
• The Sword of Welleran (1908)
• A Dreamer's Tales (1910)
• The Book of Wonder (1912)
• Fifty-one Tales, aka The Food of Death (1915)
• Tales of Wonder (1916) (published in America as The Last Book of Wonder)
• Tales of Three Hemispheres (1919)
• The Man Who Ate the Phoenix (1947)
• The Little Tales of Smethers (1952)
• The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer and Other Fantasms (1980)

Reprint Collections

• Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany (1912)
• A Dreamer's Tales & Other Stories (1917)
• Book of Wonder (1918)
• The Sword of Welleran and Other Tales of Enchantment (1954)
• At the Edge of the World (1970)
• Beyond the Fields We Know (1972)
• Gods, Men and Ghosts (1972)
• Over the Hills and Far Away (1974)
• Bethmoora and Other Stories (1993)
• The Exiles Club and Other Stories (1993)
• The Lands of Wonder (1994)
• The Hashish Man and Other Stories (1996)
• Time and the Gods (2000)
• In the Land of Time (2004)

Jorkens

The Jorkens books were of a type popular in fantasy and science fiction writing: the gentlemen's club, where extremely improbable tales are related; they consist of:

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• The Travel Tales of Mr Joseph Jorkens (1931)
• Jorkens Remembers Africa (1934)
• Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey (1940)
• The Fourth Book of Jorkens (1948)
• Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey (1954)
• The Last Book of Jorkens (recently discovered and soon to be published)

Novels

Fantasy

• Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley aka The Chronicles of Rodrigues (1922)
• The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924)
• The Charwoman's Shadow (1926), second part of the Shadow Valley Chronicles
• The Blessing of Pan (1927)
• The Curse of the Wise Woman (1933)
• My Talks with Dean Spanley (1936)
• The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders (1950)

Other

• Up in the Hills (1935)
• Rory and Bran (1936)
• The Story of Mona Sheehy (1939)
• Guerilla (1944)
• The Last Revolution (1951)
• His Fellow Men (1952)
• The Pleasures of a Futuroscope (2003)

Drama Collections

• Five Plays (1914)
• Plays of Gods and Men (1917)
• If (full-length play) (1921)
• Plays of Near and Far (1922)
• Alexander and Three Small Plays (1925)
• Seven Modern Comedies (1928)
• The Old Folk of the Centuries (full-length play) (1930)
• Mr Faithful (full-length play) (1935)
• Plays for Earth and Air (1937)

Poetry

• Fifty Poems (1929)
• Mirage Water (1938)
• War Poems (1941)
• Wandering Songs (1943)
• A Journey (1944)
• The Year (1946)
• The Odes of Horace (1947) (translation)
• To Awaken Pegasus (1949)

Essays and Sketches

• Nowadays (1918)
• Tales of War (1918)
• Unhappy Far-Off Things (1919)
• If I Were Dictator (1934)
• My Ireland (1937)
• The Donnellan Lectures 1943 (1945)
• A Glimpse from a Watchtower (1947)
• The Jest of Hahalaba (1929)

Autobiography

• Patches of Sunlight (1938)
• While The Sirens Slept (1944)
• The Sirens Wake (1945)