PRE-ORDER: APPENDIX N: WEIRD TALES FROM THE ROOTS OF DUNGEONS &
DRAGONS
Hello There,
Hope all's good!
Like a pair of over-enthused Vampire Spawn we're delighted to announce
that Strange Attractor Press will be reissuing Peter Bebergal's wonderful
book Appendix
N: Weird Tales From The Roots Of Dungeons & Dragons in a
fully revised and expanded edition to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the
world's favourite roleplaying game.
This revised edition features a new foreword from Arthur C. Clarke Award
Winning science fiction author Adrian Tchaikovsky, alongside additional
tales from A. Merritt and Andre Norton, a dark fantasy comic by Gardner Fox
& John Giunta, and newly sourced and commisioned illustrations from Virgil
Finlay and Escape The Dark Castle's Alex Crispin.
Available as both a deluxe hardback and a high quality trade paperback,
both editions will feature coloured map endpapers, allowing readers to plot
their own journeys through Bebergal's unique editorial adventure.
Appendix N: Weird Tales From The Roots Of Dungeons & Dragons
Revised And Expanded Edition
Edited By Peter Bebergal
Foreword By Adrian Tchaikovsky
Afterword By Ann Vandermeer
Available as a deluxe hardback limited to 500 copies, and a trade paperback with
printed fold-out map endpapers.
210mm x 148 mm
408 pp
Black and White
ISBN: 9781913689933
Hardback: £30.00
Paperback: £17.99
Hardback orders will include a set of two postcards featuring cover
art by Arik Roper (while stocks last)
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An anthology of fantastical tales that inspired the creation of the
world's greatest roleplaying game.
Edited by Peter Bebergal, this lovingly-assembled revised and expanded
edition adds a new foreword by Arthur C. Clarke award-winning novelist Adrian
Tchaikovsky, tales by A. Merritt and Andre Norton, a dark fantasy comic by
Gardner Fox & John Giunta, and illustrations by revered master of the weird,
Virgil Finlay, and Escape The Dark Castle's Alex Crispin.
Drawing upon the original list of “inspirational reading”
provided by Gary Gygax in the first Dungeon Master's Guide, published in
1979, as well as hobbyist magazines and related periodicals that helped to
define the modern role-playing game, Appendix N offers a collection of short
fiction and resonant fragments that reveal the literary influences that shaped
Dungeons & Dragons, the world's most popular RPG. The stories in
Appendix N contextualize the ambitious lyrical excursions that helped set the
adventurous tone and dank, dungeon-crawling atmospheres of fantasy roleplay as
we know it today.
This new edition, published on the occasion of D&D’s 50th
anniversary, includes fascinating new stories, a comprehensive introduction, and
a new foreword.
Includes work by Poul Anderson, Frank Brunner, Ramsey Campbell, Lin Carter,
Lord Dunsany, Gardner Fox & John Giunta, Robert E. Howard, Tanith Lee, Fritz
Leiber, H. P. Lovecraft, David Madison, A. Merritt, Michael Moorcock, C. L.
Moore, Andre Norton, Fred Saberhagen, Clark Ashton Smith, Margaret St. Clair,
Jack Vance, Manly Wade Wellman
