New Music Excess: Off Blog: Fantasy Masterworks

As I continue to rediscover my book collection, after unpacking all of my stuff that arrived from the UK, I pulled out a book from my Fantasy ‘collection’, Time and the Gods by Lord Dunsany. It’s one of a series of ‘Fantasy Masterworks’ published by Millennium (an imprint of Victor Gollancz). The series was intended to create, as the information on the back cover states, ‘a library of some of the greatest, most original, and most influential fantasy ever written’. So, I look forward to finally being able to work my way through through the ones that I brought. I have up to #15 in the series. Here is a list of what has been published so far:

Gene Wolfe - The Book of the New Sun: Volume 1 Shadow and Claw
Lord Dunsany - Time and the Gods
E. R. Eddison - The Worm Ouroboros
Jack Vance - Tales of the Dying Earth
John Crowley - Little, Big
Roger Zelazny - Chronicles of Amber
M. John Harrison - Viriconium
Robert E. Howard - The Conan Chronicles: Volume 1 The People of the Black Circle
Jonathan Carroll - The Land of Laughs
L Sprague De Camp and Fletcher Pratt - The Compleat Enchanter
Hope Mirless - Lud-In-The-Mist
Gene Wolfe - The Book of the New Sun: Volume 2 Sword and Citadel
George R.R. Martin - Fevre Dream
Sheri S. Tepper - Beauty
Lord Dunsany - The King of Elfland's Daughter
Robert E. Howard - The Conan Chronicles: Volume 2 Hour of the Dragon
Michael Moorcock - Elric
Fritz Leiber - The First Book of Lankhmar
Patricia A. Mckillip - The Riddle-Master's Game
Jack Finney - Time and Again
E. R. Eddison - Mistress of Mistresses
Michael Moorcock - Gloriana
Fletcher Pratt - The Well of the Unicorn (out of print)
Fritz Leiber - The Second Book of Lankhmar
Jonathan Carroll - Voice of Our Shadow
Clark Ashton Smith - The Emperor of Dreams Best Fantasy Tales
Jack Vance - Lyonesse Suldrun's Garden
Gene Wolfe - Peace (out of print)
John M. Ford - The Dragon Waiting a Mague of History
Michael Moorcock - Corum the Prince in the Scarlet Robe
C. L. Moore - Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams
Poul Anderson - The Broken Sword
William Hope Hodgson - The House on the Borderland and Other Novels
Tim Powers - The Drawing of the Dark
Jack Vance - Lyonesse II The Green Pearl and Madouc
Michael Moorcock - The History of the Runestaff
David Lindsay - A Voyage to Arcturus
Jack Williamson - Darker Than You Think
Evangeline Walton - The Mabinogion
Poul Anderson - Three Hearts & Three Lions
John Gardner - Grendel
Michael Swanwick - The Iron Dragon's Daughter
Geoff Ryman - Was
Dan Simmons - Song of Kali
Ken Grimwood - Replay
Leigh Brackett - Sea-Kings of Mars and Other Worldly Stories
Tim Powers - The Anubis Gates
Patricia A. Mckillip - The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked this Way Comes
Rudyard Kipling - The Mark of the Beast and Other Fantastical Tales

'Fantasy Masterworks' on Amazon

http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/Masterworks-Fiction-list.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Masterworks

Of course, one must have the correct reading music for such an epic task. So, I found in my little black book of music lists, Terrorizer’s True Cult Underground Epic Metal 1980’s list. Here’s the list: