Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, who went by the pen name of Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) and wrote over 90 volumes of fiction, essays, poems and plays over the course of his life.

His short story, "How the enemy came to Thlunrana", was first published in 1915 as part of his book Fifty-One Tales, a collection of fantasy short stories which is considered to have been a major influence on the work of early fantasy writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, and others.

We’re building a digital archive of short fiction forms from the classic, golden age, and pulp fiction era of science fiction and fantasy: a central repository of out-of-print stories of three thousand words or less.

You can read Dunsany's original story on our website, along with the rest of the flash fiction and short stories featured on our channel. For more information, go to https://cyborgink.com.

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, who went by the pen name of Lord Dunsany and wrote over 90 volumes of fiction, essays, poems and plays over the course of his life.

We’re building a digital archive of short fiction forms from the classic, golden age, and pulp fiction era of science fiction and fantasy: a central repository of out-of-print stories of three thousand words or less.

You can read Dunsany's original story on our website, along with the rest of the flash fiction and short stories featured on our channel. For more information, go to https://cyborgink.com.

William Sydney Porter (1862-1910) was a writer and poet who was better known by his pen name O. Henry. His short story, "A Strange Story" was first published in 1912 in the collection, Rolling Stones.

We’re building a digital archive of short fiction forms from the classic, golden age, and pulp fiction era of science fiction and fantasy: a central repository of out-of-print stories of three thousand words or less.

You can read Porter/Henry's original story on our website, along with the rest of the flash fiction and short stories featured on our channel. For more information, go to https://cyborgink.com.