Favorite fantasy author

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Teraswaerto:
If you've never heard of Dunsany, Kay or Holdstock, perhaps you're not quite as well read as you thougth.

How about a somewhat more useful reply?

Of course I could blame it on the fact that Barnes and Noble's storefront outlets only seem to carry popular authors ...

A quick check of Dunsany with B&N Online shows that his works do not seem to be available in mass-market editions. That's one problem right there. I cannot afford large-format volumes.

Holdstock's Mythago Wood came out in August of Last year and I must have just overlooked it. His other works are long out of print it seems. As are about half of Kay's. Kay's stuff that is still in print does not appear to be normal stock items in the B&N stores. And I don't buy books I cannot thumb through and get a feel for.

By the way, as a personal note, you might want to think twice about recommending books that are hard to get. It's one reason (besides simply forgetting about him) that I didn't recommend a good author like Michael Moorcock. Most of his stuff is out of print. And worse, hard to find used. (Luckily for me, I got his books many years ago when they could still be found, new and/or used.) Ditto for Andre Norton.