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Here Dunsany has a little side story, a phantastical episode, but for us it’s a useful snippet. The hero meets a magician who keeps forcing him to undergo mystogogic initiations. The recording was released into the public domain by Ed Humpel, through Librivox. *** The sound of their knocking boomed huge and slow through the…

This week we quote hard: welcome to the medieval equivalent of H H Holmes’s hotel. Thanks again to Ed Humpel and Librivox. The door opened after a while and mine host appeared. “It is late,” he said. Rodriguez smiled acquiescently and mine host withdrew, and presently leaving Morano whom his master’s voice had waked, to…

The works of Lord Dunsany provided many dozens of plot hooks, and monsters, for the early episodes of this podcast. It also provided material for the longest. In my fossicking I took the easy pieces, in his short story collections, and left Dunsany’s novels alone. I thought them insufficiently fantastical. I was, however, mistaken. Time…

This is a tiny episode, recorded sometime ago when I was doing all the Duunsany material. It’s only about a minute long but it’s his take on the armies of ghosts which we covered in one of the previous books. I remember a Criamon magus putting on the cap of their leader. Now for a…

I originally wrote this story up as two elementals, feuding for status, but I think they are likely faeries, as they are interested in the death of humans. Is the fog a sort of meteorological vampire? Can you set it on your enemies? Protect your own ships? Does the Old Winter have a court with…

A short Dunsany piece in which we see either an angel, or an accuser at its work. Accusers are demons who claim to punish humans on behalf of God. Statistics are provided at the end of this post. I like that this angel, or demon, has installed neon lights in the extension he is building…