The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories
The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories is the third book by Anglo-Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others. It was first published in hardcover by George Allen & Sons in October 1908, and has been reprinted a number of times since. Issued by the Modern Library in a combined edition with "A Dreamer's Tales" as "A Dreamer's Tales and Other Stories" in 1917. The book is a series of short stories , some of them linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegāna, which were the focus of his earlier collections "The Gods of Pegāna" and "Time and the Gods". One of the stories, "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth", was afterwards (1910) published by itself as a separate book, a now very-rare "Art-and-Craft"-style limited edition.