The Gods of Pegana [Illustrated] (Lovecraftian Librarium Book...

* IllustratedONE OF THE FOREMOST foundation classics in weird fantasy fiction is given a beautiful, illustrated treatment in this deluxe WONDERLAND IMPRINTS edition of Lord Dunsany’s eerie masterpiece, THE GODS OF PEGANA. Hailed as an inspiration by H.P. Lovecraft, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Ursula K. Le Guin, this haunting work of the imagination is portrayed as the sacred book of a civilization which no longer exists – the primordial homeland of humanity, Pegana, the home of the lost golden age when the many dark gods still walked among us.This work is one of the volumes of the LOVECRAFTIAN LIBRARIUM, a treasury of the masterworks which H.P. Lovecraft modeled his own writings upon in his development of the Cthulhu Mythos. Authors represented in this series include Algernon Blackwood, Robert W. Chambers, Lord Dunsany, M. R. James, Arthur Machen, Charles Maturin, Edgar Allan Poe, M. P. Shiel, Bram Stoker, and other legends of horror fiction. For readers interested in the finest tales of the supernatural, the Librarium will prove to be one of the finest collections of classic essentials!(Contains Lord Dunsany’s novella in full, with 22 beautiful illustrations by his favored artist, Sidney Sime. Includes 32 chants/chapters, 16,000 words, 110 pages. Also includes a summation of H.P. Lovecraft’s Dunsanian Dreamlands stories.)

About the Author

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett (1878 - 1957), was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than ninety books of his work were published in his lifetime and both original work and compilations have continued to appear. Dunsany's oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as plays, novels and essays. He achieved great fame and success with his early short stories and plays and during the 1910s was considered one of the greatest living writers of the English-speaking world; he is today best known for his 1924 fantasy novel The King of Elfland's Daughter. Born and raised in London, to the second-oldest title (created 1439) in the Irish peerage, Dunsany lived much of his life at what may be Ireland's longest-inhabited house, Dunsany Castle near Tara, worked with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, was chess and pistol-shooting champion of Ireland and travelled and hunted extensively.

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