Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots Of Dungeons & Dragons

We're elated to announce that Peter Bebergal's Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeon & Dragons has returned from the printers.
Thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered! We're expecting copies to be dispatched from today.
Copies of the special edition hardback are still available at the Strange Attractor Web Store, and include a chapbook of A. Merritt's disquieting novella, People of the Pit, originally published in 1918.

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Featuring tales by Poul Anderson, Frank Brunner, Ramsey Campbell, Lin Carter, Lord Dunsany, Robert E. Howard, Tanith Lee, Fritz Leiber, H. P. Lovecraft, David Madison, Michael Moorcock, C. L. Moore, Fred Saberhagen, Clark Ashton Smith, Margaret St. Clair, Jack Vance, Manly Wade Wellman.
 

Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons 
Edited by Peter Bebergal
With an afterword by Ann VanderMeer

Cover art by Arik Roper
Interior illustrations and explorer’s map by Alex Crispin

148mm x 210mm
360pp
ISBN: 9781907222740

Special Edition Hardback £30.00
Includes a chapbook edition of A.M. Merritt’s 1918 novella People of the Pit with art by Virgil Finlay. 

“When the adventurers first arrive in the village, they can already hear whispers of the strange and terrible happenings in the ruins of the nearby hills…”

Drawing upon Gary Gygax’s list of “inspirational reading” in the original 1979 Dungeon Masters Guide, Appendix N presents a selection of short fiction and resonant fragments that shaped the world’s most popular role playing game.

Rippling flesh, fiendish beasts and chasmic horrors populate what were then entirely novel fantastic landscapes, which have lost none of their atmosphere, magic or otherworldly allure in our own embattled century.

Appendix N explores and contextualizes these ambitious lyrical excursions that set the adventurous tone and dank, dungeon-crawling atmospheres of fantasy roleplay as we know it today.