“Inventor of a new mythology and weaver of surprising folklore, Lord Dunsany stands dedicated to a strange world of fantastic beauty... unexcelled in the sorcery of crystalline singing prose, and supreme in the creation of a gorgeous and languorous world of incandescently exotic vision. No amount of mere description can convey more than a fraction of Lord Dunsany's pervasive charm.”

—  Lord Dunsany

H. P. Lovecraft, quoted in the Del Rey edition of The Charwoman's Shadow
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Irish writer and dramatist 1878–1957

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