Miriam Cihodariu's Reviews > Time and the Gods

Well, I can definitely see how Lord Dunsany influenced the future world of fantasy lit. His stories are very beautiful, but in a style that makes you dream and drift away into sleep.

There isn't much consistency of characters, names of places and so on, and no background explanations are given, so when you see a lot of name-dropping (with very specific, fantasy-style names) in a text, it can be confusing. I would have loved to see past or future references to those names, but instead they make a one-time brief appearance in a paragraph, without any occasion to understand how it all fits together into a perhaps coherent world. :)

Still, even if this downside makes Lord Dunsany's stories not be the kind of prose to give way to a massive, GoT-style fandom, I still appreciate his work a lot. Ok, so you can't fall in love with characters, but it's all so dreamy and beautiful that you can definitely fall in love with the atmosphere. That's good enough for me, considering when he wrote and the pioneer status of his prose for the genre.