"Four years ago, we wrote about Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots
of Dungeons and Dragons, the gorgeous collection of seminal sword and sorcery
and dark fantasy fiction that Peter Bebergal put together. The inspiration
behind the collection was Gary Gygax's infamous "Appendix N," the
list of literature in the back of the original 1979 AD&D Dungeon Masters
Guide that helped "shape the form of the game."
Peter's curation of his Appendix N collection included not only
pieces from Gygax's list (and the later "Inspirational Source
Material" list in the Red Box edition of D&D) but other, related
authors and works which formed the early fantasy milieu from which D&D's
creators drew their inspiration.
Now, Peter and Strange Attractor Press are back with Appendix N:
Weird Tales From The Roots Of Dungeons & Dragons, a new, expanded edition of
the book. This revised edition contains 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, new cover art by Arik Roper (deluxe hardback only), and a trade
paperback with printed fold-out dungeon map endpapers. The new edition even
sports an enthusiastic cover blurb by comedian and beloved poster-nerd, Patton
Oswalt."
