Lin Carter's Simrana Cycle

Lin Carter, enthralled by the "Dreamland" tales of Lord Dunsany and others, contributed to the growing genre with a series of his own stories, dubbed "The Simrana Tales." Some of them were published in a variety of small-press magazines and other publications, but they were never collected into a book, and many tales have never been published at all. Until now.

As Carter himself commented in his afterword to Lord Dunsany's Beyond the Fields We Know, "The most Dunsanian of my fiction is the S...