The Author's Shelf

Reading

The books I return to — the shelves behind the work. If one of them finds its way to you, so much the better.

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The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien

The professor who built a world from philology and loss. Everything I know about depth begins here.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Where the road begins — and the whole long shadow of the world falls after it.

Michael Moorcock

The gentleman of the black sword, who taught that every crown is a curse consented to. The Elric Saga, Vol. 1.

H.P. Lovecraft

The recluse who understood that the universe owes us neither malice nor mercy, only scale. A deluxe six-volume set.

Robert E. Howard

Where sword-and-sorcery was forged. Howard wrote in fire what others only outline.