Lord Dunsany

Lord Dunsany has written at least 72 books. Their most popular book is The King of Elfland's Daughter with 112 saves with an average rating of 3.72⭐.

Author Bio

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett was born in Ireland, the first son of John William Plunkett, 17th Baron of Dunsany and Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Maria Grosvenor Ernle-Erle-Drax. He spent his childhood at several family properties, including Dunstall Priory in Shoreham, Kent, Dunsany Castle in County Meath, as wells as other family homes such as in London. His schooling was at Cheam, Eton and finally Sandhurst, which he entered in 1896. He became the 18th Baron of Dunsany when his father died in 1899, and he returned to Dunsany Castle in 1901 after war duty. He married Lady Beatrice Child Villiers in 1904. Their child, Randal, was born in 1906.

Edward Plunkett was a writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, which he published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays.

Details	Rating	Readers Count
The King of Elfland's Daughter Lord Dunsany	3.72	29 reads
The Gods of Pegana Lord Dunsany	2.75	5 reads
Fifty-One Tales Lord Dunsany	3.4	7 reads
Time and the Gods Lord Dunsany	2	3 reads
The Book of Wonder: A Chronicle of Little Adventures at the Edge of the World Lord Dunsany	3.25	5 reads
The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories Lord Dunsany	4	5 reads
In the Land of Time: And Other Fantasy Tales Lord Dunsany	5	2 reads
The Charwoman's Shadow Lord Dunsany	3	1 read
A Dreamer's Tales Lord Dunsany	3.5	3 reads
Tales of Wonder Lord Dunsany	0	1 read
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy The Mammoth Book of Fantasy	3	2 reads
Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy	0	0 reads
The Big Book of the Masters of Horror, Weird and Supernatural Short Stories The Big Book of the Masters of Horror, Weird and Supernatural Short Stories: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories in one volume Cynthia Asquith Leonid Andreyev E.F. Benson Ambrose Bierce Algernon Blackwood Marjorie Bowen John Buchan Robert W. Chambers Myla Jo Closser Wilkie Collins Richard Connell Aleister Crowley F. Marion Crawford Rebecca Harding Davis Walter de la Mare Charles Dickens Arthur Conan Doyle Lord Dunsany Amelia B. Edwards Anatole France Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Elizabeth Gaskell Nikolai Gogol William Fryer Harvey L.P. Hartley Nathaniel Hawthorne Lafcadio Hearn O. Henry Robert Smythe Hichens William Hope Hodgson E.T.A. Hoffmann Robert E. Howard Violet Hunt Washington Irving W.W. Jacobs Henry James M.R. James Franz Kafka Rudyard Kipling J. Sheridan Le Fanu Vernon Lee Arthur Machen Guy de Maupassant John Metcalfe Charlotte Perkins Gilman H. P. Lovecraft Mrs. Oliphant Oliver Onions Vincent O’Sullivan Edgar Allan Poe Saki M.P. Shiel Clark Ashton Smith Mark Twain H. Russell Wakefield Edith Wharton Oscar Wilde Virginia Woolf Alfred McClelland Burrage Edith Nesbit Bram Stoker Robert Louis Stevenson Willa Cather Walter Scott H. G. Wells	0	0 reads
Gods, Men and Ghosts Gods, Men and Ghosts Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads
The Hashish Man and Other Stories Lord Dunsany	0	2 reads
The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories	2	1 read
The curse of the wise woman Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories Anonymous Ambrose Bierce M.R. James H. G. Wells William Hope Hodgson Perceval London John Russell Franz Kafka E.F. Benson Augustus Muir James Hogg John Metcalfe William Faulkner D.K. Broster Lord Dunsany Evelyn Waugh Geoffrey Household L.P. Hartley Gerald Kersh Prosper Mérimée Yvor Winters Monica Dickens Robert Graves Ray Bradbury Muriel Spark John Lennon Dawn Muscillo Dorothy K. Haynes Patricia Highsmith Roald Dahl Edgar Allan Poe Will F. Jenkins J.N. Allan Vilas Sarang Honoré de Balzac Henry James Guy de Maupassant Robert Louis Stevenson Émile Zola Various Carl Stephenson Alfred McClelland Burrage William Fryer Harvey	0	1 read
Beyond the Fields We Know Beyond the Fields We Know Lord Dunsany	0	1 read
Los Mitos de Cthulhu H.P. Lovecraft Lord Dunsany Henry Kuttner Robert Bloch August Derleth Ramsey Campbell Joan Perucho Ambrose Bierce Robert W. Chambers Arthur Machen Algernon Blackwood Frank Belknap Long Robert E. Howard Clark Ashton Smith Hazel Heald	1	2 reads
The Gods of Pegana: Classic Fantasy Stories Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads
Fiends and Creatures Richard Matheson	0	0 reads
The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories	0	0 reads
Owls' Watch Owls' Watch	0	0 reads
Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery	0	0 reads
I miti di Cthulhu H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-time Greats	4	0 reads
The Innsmouth Cycle The Innsmouth Cycle: The Taint of the Deep Ones	4	1 read
Night's Yawning Peal	0	0 reads
The Monster Book Of Monsters	0	1 read
El Ciclo de Nyarlathotep Manuel de los Reyes (Translator)	2	1 read
The Nyarlathotep Cycle	0	0 reads
Breccia Negro Breccia Negro Alberto Breccia Héctor Germán Oesterheld Carlos Trillo	0	0 reads
Cuentos de un soñador, y otras fantasías Lord Dunsany (translator)	0	0 reads
Только не дворецкий: Золотой век британского детектива	0	0 reads
The Second Ghost Book Elizabeth Bowen V.S. Pritchett Lord Dunsany John Connell Evelyn Fabyan Laurence Whistler Rosemary Timperley L.A.G. Strong Collin Brooks Eleanor Farjeon Mary Fitt Nancy Spain C.H.B. Kitchin Eileen Bigland Walter de la Mare G.W. Stonier Jonathan Curling L.P. Hartley Rose Macaulay	0	0 reads
Tales of War Lord Dunsany	0	1 read
Tales of Three Hemispheres by Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Horror Lord Dunsany	0	1 read
The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer and Other Fantasms Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads
In the Land of Time Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads
The Big Book of the Masters of Horror, Weird and Supernatural Short Stories The Big Book of the Masters of Horror, Weird and Supernatural Short Stories: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories in one volume Cynthia Asquith Leonid Andreyev E. F. Benson Ambrose Bierce Algernon Blackwood Marjorie Bowen John Buchan A. M. Burrage Willa Cather Robert W. Chambers Myla Jo Closser Wilkie Collins Richard Connell Aleister Crowley F. Marion Crawford Rebecca Harding Davis Walter De La Mare Charles Dickens Arthur Conan Doyle Lord Dunsany Amelia B. Edwards Anatole France Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Elizabeth Gaskell Charlotte Perkins Gilman Nikolai Gogol W. F. Harvey L. P. Hartley Nathaniel Hawthorne Lafcadio Hearn O. Henry Robert Hichens William Hope Hodgson E. T. A. Hoffmann Robert E. Howard Violet Hunt Washington Irving W. W. Jacobs Henry James M. R. James Franz Kafka Rudyard Kipling J. Sheridan Le Fanu Vernon Lee H. P. Lovecraft Arthur Machen Guy de Maupassant John Metcalfe Edith Nesbit Margaret Oliphant Oliver Onions Vincent O’Sullivan Edgar Allan Poe Saki Walter Scott M. P. Shiel Clark Ashton Smith Robert Louis Stevenson Bram Stoker Mark Twain H. Russell Wakefield H. G. Wells Edith Wharton Oscar Wilde Virginia Woolf Edward Lucas White	0	0 reads
Das Rote Zimmer: Lovecrafts Dunkle Idole II; Horrorgeschichten Lord Dunsany	0	1 read
Contos Fantasmas Contos Fantasmas H. G. Wells Lord Dunsany Robert Louis Stevenson Virginia Woolf Cabral do Nascimento (Translator) Anabela Silva (Translator) Ana Mafalda Costa (Translator) Ana Maria Chaves (Translator)	3	1 read
Christopher Lee's new chamber of horrors Algernon Blackwood Robert Bloch Fritz Leiber John Collier Ray Bradbury Dennis Wheatley Richard Matheson E.F. Benson M.R. James Mary Shelley Bram Stoker Sax Rohmer Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Machen Lord Dunsany H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
In The Shadow of Poe: Other Tales of Mystery and Imagination Horace Walpole Walter Scott E.T.A. Hoffmann Guy de Maupassant Sarah Orne Jewett Robert W. Chambers W.W. Jacobs Arthur Conan Doyle M.R. James Ambrose Bierce Algernon Blackwood Lord Dunsany F. Marion Crawford Mike Manomivibul	0	0 reads
Fifty-one tales Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads
The Kith of the Elf-Folk The Kith of the Elf-Folk: With linked Table of Contents Lord Dunsany	4	1 read
A Dreamer's Tales-Original Edition Lord Dunsany	0	1 read
Two Bottles of Relish Lord Dunsany	0	1 read
Collected Works of Lord Dunsany Lord Dunsany	0	1 read
44 Irish Short Stories - An Anthology Of Irish Short Fiction From Yeats To Frank O'Connor Paul Vincent Carroll Desmond Clarke John Collier Daniel Corkery Eric Cross Lord Dunsany St. John Ervine Padraic Fallon Arnold Hill David Hogan James Joyce Patrick Kavanagh Mary Lavin Donagh MacDonagh Michael MacGrian Michael McLaverty Bryan MacMahon George Moore Val Mulkerns Pádraic Ó Conaire Frank O'Connor Seán O'Faoláin Liam O'Flaherty Seumas O'Kelly Brian O'Nolan Jim Phelan James Plunkett George Bernard Shaw Edward Sheehy James Stephens Oscar Wilde W.B. Yeats Maurice Walsh	0	1 read
Delphi Collected Works of Lord Dunsany Delphi Collected Works of Lord Dunsany Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads
The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads
The Ultimate Horror Collection The Ultimate Horror Collection Ambrose Bierce E.F. Benson Saki J. Sheridan Le Fanu Franz Kafka Leonid Andreyev Edward Lucas White Lafcadio Hearn Walter de la Mare Robert E. Howard Vernon Lee Nathaniel Hawthorne M.R. James Oliver Onions Clark Ashton Smith John Metcalfe Russell Wakefield Henry Kuttner Robert W. Chambers W.W. Jacobs Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Gertrude Atherton Edgar Allan Poe David H. Keller F. Marion Crawford William Hope Hodgson Perceval Landon Eleanor Scott Marjorie Bowen Wirt Gerrare Vincent O'Sullivan Ralph Adams Cram Arthur Machen Thomas Burke Guy de Maupassant Algernon Blackwood Rudyard Kipling Magaret Oliphant Hanns Heinz Ewers Ulric Daubeny Aleister Crowley Nikolai Gogol Mark Twain Irvin S. Cobb Arthur Conan Doyle Violet Hunt E.T.A. Hoffmann O. Henry Richard Marsh Émile Erckmann Alexandre Chatrian Bernard Capes Edith Nesbit Charles Dickens Francis Stevens Ludwig Tieck Fitz-James O'Brien Harriet Prescott Spofford Willa Cather Achmed Abdullah W.C. Morrow Henry S. Whitehead Tod Robbins H. G. Wells Edward Bulwer-Lytton Sax Rohmer Charlotte Riddell Bram Stoker Robert Louis Stevenson George Allan England Barry Pain John William Polidori Rebecca Harding Davis Myla Jo Closser Elia W. Peattie Washington Irving Richard Le Gallienne Edith Wharton Anatole France Mary Shelley Henry James Paul Spencer L.P. Hartley Lord Dunsany Margaret Ronan Robert Smythe Hichens Cynthia Asquith Amelia B. Edwards Elizabeth Gaskell Walter Scott Wilbur Daniel Steele M.P. Shiel Wilkie Collins Alfred Noyes Alexander Woollcott Samuel Blas Guy Preston Henry de Vere Stacpoole George G. Toudouze H.C. McNeile Charlotte Perkins Gilman H. P. Lovecraft Alfred McClelland Burrage William Fryer Harvey	0	0 reads
Córka króla Elfów Córka króla Elfów Lord Dunsany	2	1 read
Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror Roald Dahl Reader's Digest Association C.S. Forester Shirley Jackson Arthur Conan Doyle Edgar Allan Poe Truman Capote Guy de Maupassant John Russell Algernon Blackwood John Collier G. K. Chesterton Alfred Noyes M. R. James Ray Bradbury Leslie Charteris Lord Dunsany Ellery Queen Ambrose Bierce Daphne Du Maurier Thomas Burke Robert Barr John Dickson Carr André Maurois Richard Barham Middleton Cornell Woolrich Gilbert Highet A.M. Burrage Ian Fleming Gertrude Atherton Carl Stephenson W. W. Jacobs George Hitchcock William Hope Hodgson Ross McDonald Rudyard Kipling Georges Simenon Robert Bloch Stanley Ellin H. G. Wells Eric Stanley Gardner Saki Arthur C. Clarke Agatha Christie Evelyn Waugh H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsay Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsay Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads
Das Fenster Zur Anderen Welt Das Fenster Zur Anderen Welt: Phantast. Erzählungen Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads
Time and the Gods Time and the Gods: An Omnibus Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads
Alfred Hitchcock's Fear and Trembling Henry S. Whitehead Hugh Walpole H. G. Wells Lord Dunsany William Irish John Collier M.R. James Ambrose Bierce Elizabeth Bowen Ray Bradbury John Metcalfe H. Russell Wakefield John Buchan	0	0 reads
A Filha do Rei de Elfland Lord Dunsany Cláudia Mello Belhassof (Translator)	5	1 read
How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles Lord Dunsany	3	1 read
At the Edge of the World Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads
Fifty-one tales Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads
My talks with Dean Spanley Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads
The Cthulhu Cycle: Thirteen Tentacles of Terror Lord Dunsany M.R. James August Derleth Alan Dean Foster C.J. Henderson David C. Smith Leonard Carpenter Will Murray Donald R. Burleson Steven Paulsen Pierre Comtois H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
21 Great Stories Frank R. Stockton	0	0 reads
The ghosts Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads
The Laughter of the Gods Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Baron Dunsany Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads
The Sword of Welleran, and Other Stories The Sword of Welleran, and Other Stories Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads
The little tales of Smethers, and other stories Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads
The Supernatural Reader	0	0 reads
Cuentos de un soñador Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads
Don Rodriguez: Chronicles Of Shadow Valley Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads
Idle Days on the Yann Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads
Five plays Lord Dunsany	0	0 reads