- Arabian Nights
- Beowulf
- Voltaire's Candide
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Cervantes' Don Quixote
- Stoker's Dracula
- Grimm's Fairy Tales
- Spenser's Faerie Queen
- Goethe's Faust
- Gilgamesh
- Machen's The Great God Pan
- Swift's Gulliver's Travels
- Homer's Iliad
- Dante's Inferno
- Ovid's Metamorphoses
- Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur
- Homer's Odyssey
- Edgar Allan Poe's short stories
- Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
- The Song of Roland
- Stevenson's Treasure Island
Friday, October 29, 2010
Classics Appendix N
In the original Appendix N, and in personal appendixes N from various OSR blogs, contemporary and modern fantastic literature dominates the reading list. Given the selection you'll find in a bookstore's fantasy section, that's not surprising, but I wonder what an Appendix N would include if limited to pre-1900 literature?
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Also include the pre-1900 fantasy works of:
ReplyDeleteGeorge MacDonald
William Morris
Robert Chambers
Ambrose Bierce
I like this take on the old idea Paul! I hadn't thought of something like this. It very definitely would give a singular (and quite nice) flavour to a campaign.
ReplyDeleteYes, agreed, Geoffrey. Can't believe I forgot MacDonald, as I have a particular fondness for The Princess and the Goblin.
ReplyDeleteLucian of Samosata's True History
ReplyDeleteYou reminded me of a few books I need to add to my Kindle, thank you!
ReplyDeleteAnd it would be interesting to see an alternate reality version of D&D from 1900... hmmm...
@David, much might be the same, although you wouldn't have the inspirations of Vance for the magic system and Three Hearts for alignment.
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