Lord Dunsany has invented a new mythology, and may be almost said to have devised a new language to describe it. He skims the cream of old and new romance, giving a concentration of all that is most strange, poetical, grotesque, and glamorous, in his tales of unknown gods, untraveled deserts, ghostly peoples, cities, and temples, and cataclysms of which no echo has heretofore been heard. Mr. Sime's ghoulish and grotesque illustrations are, as a rule, finely in harmony with the sense.
Experiments in artificial glamour, chiefly of the sad, forlorn, and macabre type. Visions of unheard-of lands and rivers, dead cities, and monstrous deserts and haunted forests, peopled by mysterious habitants of human or unknown kind.
–A Guide to the Best Fiction in English
