Beyond the Fields We Know
Cover of Beyond the Fields We Know
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| Author | Lord Dunsany |
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| Cover artist | Gervasio Gallardo |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Ballantine Adult Fantasy series |
| Genre | Fantasy short stories |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
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Publication date
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1972 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Preceded by | Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley |
| Followed by | The Charwoman's Shadow |
Beyond the Fields We Know is a collection of fantasy short stories by Irish writer Lord Dunsany, and edited by Lin Carter. The title is derived from a description of the location of the border of Elfland used several times in Lord Dunsany's best-known novel, The King of Elfland's Daughter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the forty-seventh volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in May, 1972. It was the series' fourth Dunsany volume, and the second collection of his shorter fantasies assembled by Carter.
Dunsany is considered a major influence on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others. Beyond the Fields We Know collects fifty-nine short pieces by the author, including stories, poems and a play, selected from some of his early collections. It incorporates the whole of his first book and collection The Gods of Pegāna (1905) and extended selections from his second, Time and the Gods (1906), and his poetry collection Fifty Poems (1929). An introduction and afterword by Carter frame the collection.
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