Appendix N: Revised and Expanded Edition
Peter Berbegal
408pp / 210mm x 148mm
84 black & white illustrations
Unlimited paperback & limited hardback edition of 500
Paperback / Hardback
£17.99 / £30.00
Available as a deluxe hardback limited to 500 copies, and a trade paperback with printed fold-out map endpapers.
Hardback orders will include a set of two postcards featuring cover art by Arik Roper (while stocks last).
With a foreword by Adrian Tchaikovskly and afterword by Ann Vandermeer.
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A treasure chest of high adventure, deep delving, and oft-surprising pathos, Peter Bebergal’s Appendix N shifted my expectation for what Fantasy was, is, and can be, in both games and literature. A landmark; or perhaps a cryptic map, for future dungeoncrawlers.
- Stu Horvath, author of Monsters, Aliens and Holes In The Ground: A Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games from D&D to Mothership
A wondrous journey through the weird fiction and early adventure stories that inspired the creation of Dungeons & Dragons. Following the map scrawled by the original Dungeon Master, Bebergal has assembled a trove of revered classics and obscure gems to delight novice adventurers and seasoned dungeon delvers alike.
- Gavin Norman, creator of Old-School Essentials
An exquisite gateway into the netherworlds of Weird Fiction.
- David Blandy, creator of Eco-Mofos!!!
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 popular RPG. The stories in Appendix N contextualise the ambitious lyrical excursions that helped set the adventurous tone and dank, dungeon-crawling atmospheres of fantasy roleplay as we know it today.
This new edition, published on the occasion of D&D’s 50th anniversary, includes fascinating new stories, a comprehensive introduction, and a new foreword.
Includes work by Poul Anderson, Frank Brunner, Ramsey Campbell, Lin Carter, Lord Dunsany, Gardner Fox & John Giunta, Robert E. Howard, Tanith Lee, Fritz Leiber, H. P. Lovecraft, David Madison, A. Merritt, Michael Moorcock, C. L. Moore, Andre Norton, Fred Saberhagen, Clark Ashton Smith, Margaret St. Clair, Jack Vance, Manly Wade Wellman.
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About the author
Peter Bebergal is a writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His writing on speculative and fringe cultures have been published by the Believer, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Yorker, Boing Boing, and the Paris Review. He is the author Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural, Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll, and Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood.
