DM's Guide to Immortals: Inspirational Reading

Frank Mentzer included a list of 135 authors in his bibliography to the Immortals Set, updating and expanding Tom Moldvay's list in the Basic Set.

There are some remarkable literary treasures to be discovered - I encourage you to browse:

Adams, Richard

Aiken, Joan

Alexander, Lloyd*

Anderson, Poul*

Anthony, Piers*

Asprin, Robert*

Baum, L. Frank*

Beagle, Peter S.*

Beaumont, Charles

Bellairs, John*

Cover to Incredible Adventures (1914) by Algernon Blackwood, published by Hippocampus Press (June, 2004).

Blackwood, Algernon

Blish, James

Bloch, Robert

Bok, Hannes*

Brackett, Leigh*

Briggs, K.M.

Brooks, Terry

Brown, Fredric**

Broxon, Mildred D.

Brunner, John

Burroughs, Edgar Rice*

Cabell, James B.*

Cover to Akhenaten: Son of the Sun by Moyra Caldecott, published by Allison & Busby, U.K. (1986).

 

Caldecott, Moyra

Campbell, J. Ramsey*

Carroll, Lewis*

Carter, Lin*

Chambers, Robert W.

Chant, Joy

Chapman, Vera

Cherryh, C.J.*

Chute, B.J.

Cook, Glenn

Cooper, Susan

Cover to The House of the Wolf by Basil Copper, published by Arkham House (1983).  Dust-jacket illustration by Stephen E. Fabian.

Copper, Basil

Crowley, Aleister

Crowley, John

Davidson, Avram*

de Camp, L. Sprague*

Delaney, Samuel R.*

Derleth, August**

Diamond, Graham

Dickinson, Peter

Dickson, Gordon R.

Cover to Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson, published by Nelson Doubleday (1977).  Illustration by Janice C. Tate.

Donaldson, Stephen R.

Eager, Edward

Eddison, E.R.*

Eisenstein, Phyllis*

Farmer, Phillip Jose*

Finney, Charles G.*

Finney, Jack

Forster, E.M.

Fox, Gardner*

Garner, Alan*

Gaskell, Jane*

Cover to The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge, published by University of London Press (1946).  Illustration by C. Walter Hodges.

Goudge, Elizabeth

Grahame, Kenneth

Green, Roland*

Haggard, H. Rider*

Haiblum, Isidore

Haldeman, Linda

Hancock, Neil

Hazel, Paul

Heinlein, Robert A.*

Cover to The House on the Borderland (1908) by William Hope Hodgson, published by Carroll & Graf (1983).  Illustration by Richard Courtney.

Hodgson, William H.

Hoffmann, E.T.A.

Howard, Robert E.*

Ipcar, Dahlov

Iverson, Eric (pseudonym of Harry Turtledove)

Jakes, John*

Jansson, Tove

Jones, Diana W.

King, Stephen

Cover to Raven Swordsmistress of Chaos by Richard Kirk, published by Corgi (1978).  Illustration by Chris Achilleos.

Kirk, Richard (collective pseudonym of Angus Wells and Robert Holdstock)

Kurtz, Katherine*

Lafferty, R.A.

Le Fanu, Sheridan

Le Guin, Ursula K.*

Lee, Tanith*

Leiber, Fritz*

Lewis, C.S.*

Long, Frank Belknap

Cover to The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924) by Lord Dunsany, published by Unicorn/Unwin (1982).  Illustration by Kathy Wyatt.

Lord Dunsany (E.J.M.D. Plunkett)

Lovecraft, H.P.*

Lumley, Brian

MacDonald, George

Machen, Arthur

Matheson, Richard

Mayne, William

McCaffrey, Anne*

McKillip, Patricia*

Merritt, Alan?*

Mitchison, Naomi

 

Cover to Parsival or a Knight's Tale (1977) by Richard Monaco, published by Berkley (1984).

Monaco, Richard

Moorcock, Michael*

Moore, C.L.*

Morris, William

Mundy, Talbot*

Munn, H. Warner

Nesbit, Edith

Niven, Larry*

North, Joan

Norton, Andre*

Offutt, Andrew*

Peake, Mervyn*

Powers, Tim

Pratt, Fletcher*

 

Cover to Strange Gateways by E. Hoffman Price, published by Arkham House (1967).  Illustration by Lee Brown Coye.

Price, E. Hoffman

Quinn, Seabury

Russ, Joanna

Saberhagen, Fred*

Silverberg, Robert

Smith, Clark Ashton*

Smith, David C.

Smith, Thorne

Springer, Nancy

Stephens, James

Stewart, Mary*

Stoker, Bram*

Straub, Peter

 

Cover to The Dreaming Jewels (1950) by Theodore Sturgeon, published by Dell (1980).  Illustration by Rowena Morrill.

Sturgeon, Theodore

Swann, Thomas B.*

Thompson, Ruth P.

Tolkien, J.R.R.*

Vance, Jack*

Wagner, Karl E.*

Walker, Hugh (pseudonym of Hubert Straßl)

Walton, Evangeline (pseudonym of Evangeline Wilna Ensley)*

Wellman, Manly D.*

Wells, H.G.

Westall, Robert

White, Theodore H.*

 

Cover to Many Dimensions (1931) by Charles Williams, published by William B. Eerdmans (1976).

Williams, Charles

Williamson, Jack*

Yarbro, Chelsea Q.

Zelazny, Roger*

*also cited by Tom Moldvay in Inspirational Source Material

**not cited by Moldvay, but included by Gygax in Appendix N

authors left off the list: Lanier (was in both Moldvay and Appendix N); St. Clair (not cited by Moldvay, but included by Gygax in Appendix N)