Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunseany, published as Lord Dunsany, is a famous author of many novels, plays, and literary fairy tales—one of the originators of the fantasy genre itself. Perhaps one of the first in European literature, he created an entire “secondary world”—with his own cosmology, mythology, history, and geography. His mythology influenced Lovecraft, Tolkien, and Borges, while his paradoxical humor—his constant play with readers’ expectations—shaped Neil Gaiman and all of modern ironic fantasy. In the novel “The Daughter of the King of Elfland,” the village parliament of Earl, located near the border of the magical country, decrees that a sorcerer should rule over their land—and so Lord Earl sends his son and heir to search for the daughter of the King of Elfland…