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First published in 1905, Lord Dunsany’s THE GODS OF PEGANA is one of the most important and influential works of modern fantasy literature. The groundbreaking, imaginative novel introduced readers to a pantheon of unforgettable gods and a rich new mythology that would inspire H.P. Lovecraft, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, and generations of fantasy, horror, and science fiction creators.

Wig Shop is pleased to present a new edition of Dunsany’s classic tome in collaboration with Colorado-based artist Dustin Holland.

Drawing inspiration from medieval illuminated manuscripts, fine art, cartooning, and animation, Holland vividly illustrates every page of this classic tome with a contemporary outsider-art flair. Each chapter begins with a full-page painting, and every page features painted borders that blend the lines between cartooning, illustration, and decorative art.

Together, Holland’s illustrations and Dunsany’s prose create a kaleidoscopic cosmic vision that is sure to thrill Weird Fiction aficionados and dazzle newcomers with its hallucinatory energy.

140 illustrated pages, 7 × 10 inches, paperback with French flaps. From an edition of 600 copies.

“This is a work of 'invented' creation myths, and Dustin Holland's art is the perfect choice to provide imagery. Holland's cartooning and drawing constantly reinvents not only itself but our ideas about comics and drawings, both primeval and sophisticated at once, just like the conceit of Dunsany's text. If you're not familiar with Holland's brilliant comics, this book provides a much needed primer to one of the medium's most creative artists.”

-Austin English, Domino Books, The Comics Journal

“UNEXCELLED in the sorcery of crystalline singing prose, and supreme in the creation of a gorgeous and languorous world of iridescently exotic vision, is Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Eighteenth Baron Dunsany, whose tales and short plays form an almost unique element in our literature.

Inventor of a new mythology and weaver of surprising folklore, Lord Dunsany stands dedicated to a strange world of fantastic beauty, and pledged to eternal warfare against the coarseness and ugliness of diurnal reality. His point of view is the most truly cosmic of any held in the literature of any period.”

-H.P. Lovecraft