A Dreamer's Tales is the fifth book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin and others. It was first published in hardcover by George Allen & Sons in September, 1910, and has been reprinted a number of times since. Issued by the Modern Library in a combined edition with The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories as A Dreamer's Tales and Other Stories in 1917.

The book is actually Dunsany's fourth major work, as his preceding book, The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth (March, 1910), was a chapbook reprinting a single story from his earlier collection The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (October, 1908).

In common with most of Dunsany's early books, A Dreamer's Tales is a collection of fantasy short stories.

Contents

• "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"

References

External links

• Project Gutenberg text