2011 Aug 10 4:28 PM

Appendix N electronic book availability

I got a new Kindle, so…. Of those books and writers mentioned in the DMG appendix N, the following are available electronically—many for free.

• Brothers Grimm
• Andrew Lang
• Leigh Brackett
• Fredric Brown
• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• L. Sprague de Camp’s Lest Darkness Fall (non-free)
• August Derleth
• Lord Dunsany
• P.J. Farmer
• Robert E. Howard*
• Sterling Lanier’s Hiero’s Journey
• Fritz Leiber’s free and non-free works
• H.P. Lovecraft
• A. Merritt’s works here and here*
• Michael Moorcock (non-free)
• Andre Norton
• Fletcher Pratt
• Fred Saberhagen (non-free)
• J.R.R. Tolkien (non-free)
• Jack Vance (non-free)
• Stanley Weinbaum
• Manly Wade Wellman
• Jack Williamson free and non-free
• Roger Zelanzy (non-free)

Most of the above works also appear in Moldvay’s Basic reading list, but the following are in addition to those listed in the DMG.

• Lloyd Alexander (non-free, young adult)
• Robert Asprin (non-free)
• L. Frank Baum (young adult)
• John Bellairs (non-free, mostly young adult, though The Face in the Frost is usually cataloged as adult)
• Thomas Bulfinch
• Lewis Carroll (young adult)
• E.R. Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros
• Robert A. Heinlein’s Glory Road (non-free)
• Tanith Lee (non-free)
• Ursula K. Le Guin (listed as young adult)
• C.S. Lewis (young adult, non-free)
• Talbot Mundy’s Tros of Samothrace and more Mundy works
• Clark Ashton Smith**
• Bram Stoker
• Thomas Burnett Swann (non-free)

UPDATE: I don’t know how I overlooked William Hope Hodgson, but thanks to Scott for noticing.

* As these works may still be under protection in parts of the world with copyright terms as insane as those of the United States, it would be naughty of you to read them for free in such a jurisdiction. I couldn’t possibly recommend it.

** I suspect many of C.A. Smith’s works are now in the public domain, though Smith’s estate and Arkham House claim otherwise.

3 comments:

anarchist, August 11, 2011 at 4:29 AM

Tros of Samothrace: http://www.munseys.com/diskthree/tros.pdf

Clark Ashton Smith does indeed have at least some works in the public domain. See http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Clark_Ashton_Smith

Paul, August 11, 2011 at 7:43 AM

Thanks!

Scott, August 11, 2011 at 7:28 PM

Most of William Hope Hodgson’s work is in the public domain and available free online.

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