Compared to many RPG fans I know I don't read a lot of fiction normally pidgeonholed as sci-fi or fantasy. But this week I started in on James Branch Cabell's Jurgen. It was originally published in 1919, whichs fits my normal criteria for taking a blind shot at a new fantasy author: the work has to be written before Tolkien and Howard became the eclipsing forces of the field.I'm ninety pages in and absolutely delighted. Gives this one a shot if you appreciate the opulent roguery of Vance's The Dying Earth, the haunting dreaminess of Dunsany and the jocular bathos of "Farmer Giles of Ham". Jurgen is a turning out to be a picaresque fairy tale of the first water.
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