Tuesday, 29 July 2025

The Lost Books of Appendix N


Pushed into motion by the Appendix N Jam (find my entry here) I have engaged in an intensive, rigourous (and two-fisted) period of study, research and legwork looking into the early literary inspirations of D&D and have discovered a veritable corpus of lost works of fantasy fiction. A protracted campaign of beatings, blackmail and bribery has revealed the following titles were excluded, for mysterious reasons, from AD&D's Appendix N:
  1. The Cruel Curse of Tzan-Tzeng
  2. Through the Ghost-Field
  3. Night of the Spine-Beast
  4. Invaders, Ironclad... Invincible!
  5. The Ghoul Machine
  6. The Siege of Stinghollow
  7. Across Broadsword Lake
  8. To Duel the Devil's Daughter
  9. Swords Against Prophecy
  10. Lo, Death-Lords!
  11. Against the Marquis of Madness
  12. Sphere of the Godlings
  13. Beyond the Impenetrable Darkness
  14. Amazons, Charge!
  15. The Twelve Tales of Tlalaklax
  16. Into the Veridian Pit
  17. Locked In Silver Shackles
  18. Empire of the Eternity-Bomb
  19. Adrift on Typhon's Trireme
  20. Beware the Wizard's Eye
  21. Die, Demon, Die!
  22. A Vision of Burning Spires
  23. The Beetling Bastion of Emperor Bhzz'tl
  24. Mozag-Shah's Mountain of Power
  25. Curses Upon Carloman 
  26. The Gilt Death of Loquacious Grey
  27. Not for All the Gold in Hell
  28. Bathed in Troll Blood
  29. Rise and Ride Again!
  30. The Amphibane Cycle 
  31. Flight from Castle Cromlech
  32. Belburbug's Bloody Playthings
  33. Damocles, Draw Thy Sword!
  34. The Saga of Sigurd Silver-Eye
  35. Ixø - City of the Witches
  36. Beneath Foreign Planets
  37. The Fiendish Company
  38. In League with the Lizardmen
  39. Sir John Sneak - The Rat with Twin Daggers
  40. The Ringamble Series, particularly Ringamble the Crypt-King, Ringamble the Revolutionary and Ringamble - Upon a Backwards Horse

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1 comment:

  1. I'm already coming up with lore for these, so you have succeeded incredibly.

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