









                     The Lands of Wonder


                   Stories by Lord Dunsany
                              
                     (Shareware version)


                   Edited by Jim Henry III
                       Published 1994




"Without a sense of mystery a man may be a scientist, a
mathematician, or many other things, but he cannot be a
poet, for he has no land to travel in, no pasture on which
to graze Pegasus, the frontier of the man-of-the-world lying
just outside the edge of the lands of wonder."  

                      -- Lord Dunsany, _Patches of Sunlight_





                      Table of Contents

Title                                             File         Size (bytes)
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The Gods of Pegana: Contents, Preface, Prologue   PEGANA00.TXT       2,182 
The Gods of Pegana                                PEGANA01.TXT         897 
Of Skarl the Drummer                              PEGANA02.TXT       1,911 
Of the Making of the Worlds                       PEGANA03.TXT       2,514 
Of the Game of the Gods                           PEGANA04.TXT       2,121 
The Chaunt of the Gods                            PEGANA05.TXT         799 
The Sayings of Kib                                PEGANA06.TXT         691 
Concerning Sish                                   PEGANA07.TXT       2,536 
The Sayings of Slid                               PEGANA08.TXT       3,997 
The Deeds of Mung                                 PEGANA09.TXT       2,816 
* The Chaunt of the Priests                       PEGANA10.TXT         963 
* The Sayings of Limpang-Tung                     PEGANA11.TXT       3,855 
* Of Yoharneth-Lahai                              PEGANA12.TXT       1,139 
* Of Roon, the God of Going                       PEGANA13.TXT       6,125 
* The Revolt of the Home Gods                     PEGANA14.TXT       4,173 
* Of Dorozhand                                    PEGANA15.TXT       3,555 
* The Eye in the Waste                            PEGANA16.TXT       2,678 
* Of the Thing that is Neither God nor Beast      PEGANA17.TXT       5,269 
* Yonath the Prophet                              PEGANA18.TXT       1,978 
* Yug the Prophet                                 PEGANA19.TXT         630 
* Alhireth-Hotep the Prophet                      PEGANA20.TXT         662 
* Kabok the Prophet                               PEGANA21.TXT       2,859 
* Of the Calamity that Befel Yun-Ilara            PEGANA22.TXT       3,626 
* Of How the Gods Whelmed Sidith                  PEGANA23.TXT       4,861 
* Of How Imbaun became High Prophet               PEGANA24.TXT       4,922 
* Of How Imbaun met Zodrak                        PEGANA25.TXT       4,217 
* Pegana                                          PEGANA26.TXT       5,744 
* The Sayings of Imbaun                           PEGANA27.TXT       2,771 
* Of How Imbaun spake of Death to the King        PEGANA28.TXT       1,250 
* Of Ood                                          PEGANA29.TXT       1,547 
* The River                                       PEGANA30.TXT       4,031 
* The Bird of Doom and the End                    PEGANA31.TXT       2,556 
                                                               
* Preface to _Time and the Gods_                  PREFACE3.TXT         250 
Time and the Gods                                 TIMEGODS.TXT       6,613 
The Coming of the Sea                             COMESEA.TXT       10,247 
A Legend of the Dawn                              LDAWN.TXT         13,915 
* The Vengeance of Men                            VENGEANC.TXT       6,725 
* When the Gods Slept                             GODSLEPT.TXT      12,329 
* The King That Was Not                           KINGNOT.TXT        3,929 
* The Cave of Kai                                 CAVEKAI.TXT        9,954 
* The Sorrow of Search                            SORROW.TXT        12,085 
* The Men of Yarnith                              YARNITH.TXT       13,148 
* For the Honour of the Gods                      HONOUR.TXT         6,649 
* Night and Morning                               NIGHT&M.TXT        4,810 
* Usury                                           USURY.TXT          4,881 
* Mlideen                                         MLIDEEN.TXT        2,807 
* The Secret of the Gods                          SECRETG.TXT        4,600 
* The South Wind                                  SOUTHW.TXT         5,193 
* In the Land of Time                             LANDTIME.TXT      17,096 
The Relenting of Sarnidac                         SARNIDAC.TXT       9,415 
* The Jest of the Gods                            JESTGODS.TXT       1,652 
* The Dreams of the Prophet                       DPROPHET.TXT       5,338 
                                                               
* The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth   SACNOTH.TXT       36,712 
* The Lord of Cities                              LORDCITY.TXT      14,301 
                                                               
The House of the Sphinx                           HSPHINX.TXT        6,043 
* The Loot of Bombasharna                         SHARD1.TXT         9,701 
The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller  THANGOBR.TXT       8,450 
                                                               
Bibliography of Lord Dunsany's works              BIBLIO.TXT        14,246
Table of Contents (this file)                     CONTENTS.TXT       7,723
Publisher's catalog                               PUBLIST.TXT       18,019
Order form                                        ORDERFRM.TXT       1,477
File description for BBS's                        FILE_ID.DIZ          252
                                                               
* - not included in this shareware release                     

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If you have never read any of Lord Dunsany's stories, you
have a great treat ahead of you.  Dunsany was one of the
best stylists and storytellers of the twentieth century. 
Don't take my word for it; go read the stories, and come
back here later.  Note that the stories from _The Gods of
Pegana_, filenames PEGANA00.TXT to PEGANA31.TXT, should be
read in order; otherwise, suit yourself.

This is the shareware version of "The Lands of Wonder,"
released on BBSs as DUNSANY3.ZIP.  If you would like to
order the full version with all fifty-five stories, see
ORDERFRM.TXT for details.

This is the third collection of Lord Dunsany's stories that
I have published in electronic book form.  The earlier two
were _The Exiles Club and other stories_ and _Bethmoora and
other stories;_ the shareware versions were DUNSANY1.ZIP and
DUNSANY2.ZIP respectively.  I said in the introduction to
_Bethmoora_ that this third collection would "hopefully
include the remainder of _Plays of Gods and Men_ and all or
most of _Tales of War_;" well, it doesn't contain any
stories from them.  It does contain the entirety of _The
Gods of Pegana_ and nearly all of _Time and the Gods_, with
a few stories from _The Book of Wonder_ and _The Sword of
Welleran_.  These stories were first published between 1905
and 1912, and are all in the public domain.

I would like to thank the Emory University, Augusta College,
University of Georgia, Clayton State College, Henry County,
and Clayton County library folks for their help in obtaining
the texts from which I worked in preparing this collection
and the two earlier ones.

                                            -- Jim Henry III
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