An important contributor to literature, Lord Dunsany was a versatile and creative writer, with works including fantasy, drama, poetry, science fiction, prose, autobiography ... His first known published work is the poem "Rhymes From a Suburb", in The Pall Mall Magazine in September 1897 (Issue 53; Volume 13, No. 1). At this time, he had not yet inherited the title and was simply the Honourable Edward Plunkett.
Eight years later, without warning, Dunsany sprang onto the scene with "The Gods of Pegana", a genuinely unique work of artificial mythology in a series of short stories, illustrated by the remarkable Sidney Sime. This was followed by a considerable number of further works of many sorts over more than fifty years...
Tracing editions and printings of books can be difficult, so this gathering will begin as a simple list by date of initial publication. Variant titles, noted as vt:, indicate alternative titles for the same volume. There are many sources for out of print Dunsany, such as The Advanced Book Exchange, though some of the earliest books, and the specifically limited editions, are extremely hard to find and may be costly. It is worth noting that hardback runs, even if not explicitly limited, were often small, especially for a new writer. This list covers Dunsany works only and does not approach the many, many publications in which the 18th Lord's material appeared; it also does not address radio, television or other audio-visual material.
- The Gods of Pegana 1905 Collection of short stories
See note and picture.
- Time and the Gods 1906 Collection of short stories
- The Sword of Welleran and other stories 1908 Collection of short stories
- The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth 1910 Short story in fine extremely limited edition
- A Dreamer's Tales 1910 Collection of short stories
- Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany 1912 Collection of short stories and other material, issued by the Yeats' Cuala Press, with introduction by W. B. Yeats, in limited edition
- The Book of Wonder 1912 Collection of short stories
- Five Plays 1914 Collection of plays
- Fifty-One Tales (vt: The Food of Death) 1915 Collection of short stories. There were slight variations between some editions.
- Tales of Wonder (vt: The Last Book of Wonder) 1916 Collection of short stories
- A Night At An Inn 1916 Play
- Plays of Gods and Men 1917 Collection of plays
- A Dreamer's Tales and other stories 1917~ Omnibus of "The Sword of Welleran and other stories" and "A Dreamer's Tales"
- The Book of Wonder 1918 Re-use of title; omnibus of "Time and the Gods" and the original "The Book of Wonder"
- Tales of War 1918 Collection of short stories
- Nowadays 1918 Originally a limited edition
- Unhappy Far-Off Things 1919 Collection of short stories
- Tales of Three Hemispheres 1919 Collection of short stories
- If 1921 Play
- The Chronicles of Rodriguez (vt: Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley) 1922 Novel
- The Laughter of the Gods 1922 Play
- The Tents of the Arabs 1922 Play
- The Queen's Enemies 1922 Play
- Plays of Near and Far 1922 Collection of plays
- Plays of Near and Far (including If) 1923 Collection of plays
- The Compromise of the King of the Golden Isles 1923 Play
- The Flight of the Queen 1923 Play
- Cheezo 1923 Play
- A Good Bargain 1923 Play
- If Shakespeare Lived Today 1923 Play
- Fame and the Poet 1923 Play
- The Gods of the Mountain 1923 Play
- The Golden Doom 1923 Play
- King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior 1923 Play
- The Glittering Gate 1923 Play
- The Lost Silk Hat 1923 Play
- The King of Elfland's Daughter 1924 Novel
- Alexander and Three Small Plays 1925 Collection of plays
- Alexander 1925 Play
- The Old King's Tale 1925 Play
- The Evil Kettle 1925 Play
- The Amusements of Khan Karuda 1925 Play
- Why the Milkman Shudders When He Perceives the Dawn 1925 Short story in small limited edition
- The Charwoman's Shadow 1926 Novel
- The Blessing of Pan 1927 Novel
- Seven Modern Comedies 1928 Collection of plays
- Atalanta in Wimbledon 1928 Play
- The Raffle 1928 Play
- The Journey of the Soul 1928 Play
- In Holy Russia 1928 Play
- His Sainted Grandmother 1928 Play
- The Hopeless Passion of Mr. Bunyon 1928 Play
- The Jest of Hahalaba 1928 Play
- Fifty Poems 1929 Collection of poems
- The Old Folk of the Centuries 1930 Play in limited edition
- The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens 1931 Collection of short stories (1st Jorkens collection)
- A City of Wonder 1932 Short story in limited edition
- Lord Adrian 1933 Play in limited edition
- The Curse of the Wise Woman 1933 Novel
- If I Were Dictator 1934 Prose
- Building a Sentence 1934 Essay
- Jorkens Remembers Africa (vt: Mr. Jorkens Remembers Africa) 1934 Collection of short stories; (2nd Jorkens collection)
- Mr. Faithful 1935 Play
- Up In The Hills 1935 Novel
- Rory and Bran 1936 Novel
- My Talks With Dean Spanley 1936 Novel
- My Ireland 1937 Prose
- Plays for Earth and Air 1937 Collection of plays
- Patches of Sunlight 1938 Autobiography
- Mirage Water 1938 Collection of poems
- The Story of Mona Sheehy 1939 Novel
- Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey 1940 Collection of short stories; (3rd Jorkens collection)
- War Poems 1941 Collection of poems
- Wandering Songs 1943 Collection of poems
- The Journey 1944 Narrative poem
- Guerilla 1944 Novel
- While the Sirens Slept 1944 Autobiography
- The Donnellan Lectures 1943 1945 Lectures
- The Sirens Wake 1945 Autobiography
- The Year 1946 Poetic cycle
- A Glimpse from a Watch Tower 1946 Essays; scarce
- [The Odes of Horace 1947 Translation]
- The Fourth Book of Jorkens 1947 Collection of short stories; (4th Jorkens collection)
- To Awaken Pegasus 1949 Collection of poems
- The Man Who Ate the Phoenix 1949 Collection of short stories
- The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders 1950 Novel and novella
- Carcassonne 1950~ Short story in limited printing
- The Last Revolution 1951 Novel
- His Fellow Men 1952 Novel
- The Little Tales of Smethers and other stories 1952 Collection of short stories
- Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey 1954 Collection of short stories; (5th Jorkens collection)
- The Sword of Welleran and other tales of enchantment 1954 Collection of short stories chosen by Lord and Lady Dunsany as a sample and memorial of favourite works
Relevant books, mostly collections, published after Lord Dunsany's death include :
- At the Edge of the World 1970 Collection of short works, edited by Lin Carter
- Beyond the Fields We Know 1972 Collection of short works, including "The Gods of Pegana" and a play in full, edited by Lin Carter
- Gods, Men and Ghosts: The Best Supernatural Fiction of Lord Dunsany 1972 Collection of short works, edited by E. F. Bleiler
- Over the Hills and Far Away 1974 Collection of short works, edited by Lin Carter
- The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer and Other Phantasms 1980 Collection of short stories, essays and plays, chiefly a sample of items not previously collected, edited by Darrell Schweitzer
- An Enemy of Scotland Yard and Other Whodunits (Ein Feind vom Scotland Yard und Andere Kurzkrimis) 1985 Collection of four short stories in bilingual edition
- Verses Dedicatory 1985 Collection of previously unpublished verse, from personal dedications written by Dunsany in copies of his work, gathered and edited by Lin Carter, in limited edition chapbook format
- The Ghosts 1993 Short story
- The Hashish Man and Other Stories 1996 Collection of short stories, edited by Jon Longhi
- The Complete Pegana 1998 Collection of short works, including "The Gods of Pegana" and "Time and the Gods", edited by S.T. Joshi
- Arthur C. Clarke & Lord Dunsany: A Correspondence 1998 Collation of letters, previously unpublished, with some of Lord Dunsany's in facsimile, edited by Keith Allen Daniels
- Time and the Gods (omnibus) 1999 Omnibus of The Gods of Pegana, Time and the Gods, The Sword of Welleran, A Dreamer's Tales, The Book of Wonder and The Last Book of Wonder (Pegana is not in order in the book - this is the correct order)
Unpublished in Lord Dunsany's lifetime but since published :
- The Last Book of Jorkens 2002 Sixth and final collection of Jorkens stories, gathered in early 1957; first release; does not include the last Jorkens tale, written and published later in 1957.
- The Pleasures of a Futuroscope 2003 Novel written in the 1950's; first release.
