Lord Dunsany's "A Dreamer's Tales" is a collection of short fantasy stories exploring mythical lands and strange encounters. It is notable for its pioneering role in the development of modern fantasy literature, influencing many later authors in the genre.
Sources for Lord Dunsany — A Dreamer's Tales
Lord Dunsany — A Dreamer's Tales in First Fantasy Literature
Held in the First Fantasy Literature chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Apuleius — The Golden Ass (Metamorphoses) (170)
- The Arabian Nights' Entertainments (The Thousand and One Nights) (900)
- Anonymous (Arthur W. Ryder, trans.) — The Panchatantra (300)
- Sir Richard F. Burton — Vikram and the Vampire; or, Tales of Hindu Devilry (illus. Ernest Griset) (1870)
- Giovanni Boccaccio — The Decameron (1353)
- Sir Thomas Malory — Le Morte d'Arthur (1485)
- Ludovico Ariosto — Orlando Furioso (1532)
- Edmund Spenser — The Faerie Queene (1590)
- John Bunyan — The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)
- Jonathan Swift — Gulliver's Travels (1726)
- Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué — Undine (1811)
- E. T. A. Hoffmann — The Nutcracker and the Mouse-King (1816)
- George MacDonald — Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (1858)
- Lewis Carroll — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
- Lewis Carroll — Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871)
- George MacDonald — The Princess and the Goblin (1872)
- H. Rider Haggard — King Solomon's Mines (1885)
- H. Rider Haggard — She: A History of Adventure (1887)
- William Morris — The House of the Wolfings (1889)
- Arthur Machen — The Great God Pan (1894)
- Robert W. Chambers — The King in Yellow (1895)
- George MacDonald — Lilith: A Romance (1895)
- William Morris — The Well at the World's End (1896)
- L. Frank Baum — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
- E. Nesbit — Five Children and It (1902)
- J. M. Barrie — Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (1904)
- Lord Dunsany — The Gods of Pegāna (1905)
- E. Nesbit — The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904)
- E. Nesbit — The Story of the Amulet (1906)
- Lord Dunsany — The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (1908)
- Lord Dunsany — The Book of Wonder (illus. Sidney H. Sime) (1912)
- James Branch Cabell — Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice (1919)
- E. R. Eddison — The Worm Ouroboros (1922)
- Lord Dunsany — The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924)
- Hope Mirrlees — Lud-in-the-Mist (1926)
- Clark Ashton Smith — Short Fiction (1929)
- George MacDonald — The Light Princess (1864)
- George MacDonald — The Golden Key (1867)
- Chrétien de Troyes — Four Arthurian Romances (1180)