Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy by James Branch Cabell, Douglas A. Anderson, William Hope Hodgson, A. Merritt, George MacDonald, Arthur Machen, L. Frank Baum, Richard Garnett, David Lindsay, Andrew Lang, E. Nesbit, Kenneth Morris, Francis Stevens, Clemence Housman, E.A. Wyke-Smith, Frank R. Stockton, H. Rider Haggard, William Morris, Ludwig Tieck, Lord Dunsany, E.H. Knatchbull-Hugessen

Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy

James Branch Cabell, Douglas A. Anderson, William Hope Hodgson, A. Merritt, George MacDonald, Arthur Machen, L. Frank Baum, Richard Garnett, David Lindsay, Andrew Lang, E. Nesbit, Kenneth Morris, Francis Stevens, Clemence Housman, E.A. Wyke-Smith, Frank R. Stockton, H. Rider Haggard, William Morris, Ludwig Tieck, Lord Dunsany, E.H. Knatchbull-Hugessen

528 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction fantasy short stories adventurous slow-paced

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“A superb collection, a splendid and much-needed book. Anderson has cleared away the dross and shown us the golden roots of fantasy before it became a genre.”–Michael Moorcock, author of The Eternal ChampionMany of today’s top names in fantasy ack...

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