Appendix N

Weird Tales From The Roots Of Dungeons & Dragons Edited By Peter Bebergal Foreword: Adrian TchaikovskyAfterword: Ann Vandermeer An anthology of fantastical tales that inspired the creation of the world’s greatest roleplaying game. Edited by Peter Bebergal, this lovingly-assembled revised and expanded edition adds 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. Drawing upon the original list of “inspirational reading” provided by Gary Gygax in the first Dungeon Master’s Guide, published in 1979, as well as hobbyist magazines and related periodicals that helped to define the modern role-playing game, Appendix N offers a collection of short fiction and resonant fragments that reveal the literary influences that shaped Dungeons & Dragons, the world’s most