Lord Dunsany

A Dreamer’s Tales (1910)

• Preface
• Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean
• Blagdaross
• The Madness of Andelsprutz
• Where the Tides Ebb and Flow
• Bethmoora
• Idle Days on the Yann
• The Sword and the Idol
• The Idle City
• The Hashish Man
• Poor Old Bill
• The Beggars
• Carcassonne
• In Zaccarath
• The Field
• The Day of the Poll
• The Unhappy Body

The Book of Wonder (1912)

• Preface
• The Bride of the Man-Horse
• The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller
• The House of the Sphinx
• The Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men
• The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolator
• The Loot of Bombasharna
• Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance
• The Quest of the Queen’s Tears
• The Hoard of the Gibbelins
• How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art upon the Gnoles
• How One Came, as Was Foretold, to the City of Never
• The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap
• Chu-Bu and Sheemish
• The Wonderful Window
• Epilogue

Tales of Wonder (1916)

• Preface
• A Tale of London
• Thirteen at Table
• The City on Mallington Moor
• Why the Milkman Shudders When He Perceives the Dawn
• The Bad Old Woman in Black
• The Bird of the Difficult Eye
• The Long Porter’s Tale
• The Loot of Loma
• The Secret of the Sea
• How Ali Came to the Black Country
• The Bureau d’Echange de Maux
• A Story of Land and Sea
• A Tale of the Equator
• A Narrow Escape
• The Watch-Tower
• How Plash-Goo Came to the Land of None’s Desire
• The Three Sailors’ Gambit
• The Exiles’ Club
• The Three Infernal Jokes