Blackmoor reading list

[Havard]

My initial idea was to pinpoint ore or less ten titles and make a list with some short explanations of the why and how.

Horseclan novels - pretty obvious.

Yeah, these can probably be linked to the Peshwah if not other things as well.

Beagle - pretty obvious.

Indeed!

But Dune and Lankhmar, or Lovecraft? - Which stories in concrete would you say had an impact on Blackmoor?

Frank Herbet's Dune - The culture of the Fremen and the story of Paul Atreides seems like a good match for Peshwah Na Shepro and the Peshwah.

HP Lovecraft
I don't know the individual stories of the Cthulhu Mythos that well, but anything dealing with Cthulhu, the Deep Ones and Tsaothoggua can be linked to the Temple of the Frog, the Froglin etc. IMC I also see the Egg of Coot as a Cthulhu-like being. I think it is one of several valid interpretations of this entity.

Fritz Leiber
I haven't read any of Leibers Lankhmar novels, but I know they deal with rogue-ish characters and are generally city based adventures. If I were to guess I might picture Maus as a Lankhmar-ish city, with Debelfry and the thieves guild (The Coven in the ZGG version) as similar to that. I could also see the tales of Mello and the Blue Rider as being similar in spirit to the tales of Fahrfd and the Grey Mouser. I have never thought about the Maus/Lankhmar analogy before, but I think this is something we can explore further.

-Havard