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Every company does something different with the money that it makes from collectible card games. Wizards tries to buy the cosmos, Steve Jackson goes on offering the cheapest prices in town, and Chaosium has entered into the book trade. Now I have no proof of any of the assertions, but they are my gut feelings in this matter. And I have never been thankful for collectible cards until I got my first real looks at Chaosium's fiction lines. These are wonderful books and core resources for Cthulhu, Glorantha (presumably), and Pendragon gaming.

This book contains a long out of print world from Lord Dunsany— Pegana. Lord Dunsany was a large influence on Lovecraft, and his Pegana tales helped to influence Lovecraft's Dreamlands. These stories concern a fantasy world created out of whole cloth, cosmologies and everything, and every one of these stories is contained within these pages. This is a wonderful book, and Lord Dunsany's writings bring a tear to my eye. In an age where we can clearly see the democratization of print, this is a wonderful return to the elitism of another day. I wouldn't necessarily want to stay there, but it has been a nice visit.

Any company that would go to the trouble to keep this source material in print deserves our thanks. Not just for their entire line of fiction, but for putting out this particularly wonderful book!

Style: 5 (Excellent!)
Substance: 5 (Excellent!)