Fifty-One Tales

The Food of Death

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN:
  9781775457107
• Edition: 0

Looking for a cornucopia of classic fantasy tales? Dip into The Food of Death: Fifty-One Tales from genre pioneer Lord Dunsany. The short stories collected in this career-spanning compendium range from fables with a mythic bent to action-adventure tales set in alternate universes -- all from the pen of a brilliant early figure in the field who is credited as a major influence on Tolkien and Lovecraft. Fantasy fans won't be disappointed.

Table of contents

• FIFTY-ONE TALES
• Contents
• The Assignation
• Charon
• The Death of Pan
• The Sphinx at Gizeh
• The Hen
• Wind and Fog
• The Raft-Builders
• The Workman
• The Guest
• Death and Odysseus
• Death and the Orange
• The Prayer of the Flowers
• Time and the Tradesman
• The Little City
• The Unpasturable Fields
• The Worm and the Angel
• The Songless Country
• The Latest Thing
• The Demagogue and the Demi-Monde
• The Giant Poppy
• Roses
• The Man with the Golden Ear-Rings
• The Dream of King Karna-Vootra
• The Storm
• A Mistaken Identity
• The True History of the Hare and the Tortoise
• Alone the Immortals
• A Moral Little Tale
• The Return of Song
• Spring in Town
• How the Enemy Came to Thlunrana
• A Losing Game
• Taking Up Picadilly
• After the Fire
• The City
• The Food of Death
• The Lonely Idol
• The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts)
• The Reward
• The Trouble in Leafy Green Street
• The Mist
• Furrow-Maker
• Lobster Salad
• The Return of the Exiles
• Nature and Time
• The Song of the Blackbird
• The Messengers
• The Three Tall Sons
• Compromise
• What We Have Come To
• The Tomb of Pan