A Shiver in the Archives

"Denizens of the archives have driven themselves into sweet oblivion by pursuing false leads down cold trails to dead ends, by amassing bulging but frequently useless dossiers, and by probing dull monographs . . . yet sometimes there comes a great notion." "A Shiver in the Archives" by Gale E. Christianson

Sunday, December 18, 2022

A. Merritt's Christmas card for 1936

Merritt holds a pitchfork:  "Ready for the Critics"!

Happy holidays.

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Douglas A. Anderson is the author of The Annotated Hobbit (1988; revised and expanded edition 2002). He is currently Book Reviews Editor of the peer-reviewed online Journal of Tolkien Research (founded 2014). His anthologies of fantasy literature include Tales Before Tolkien (2003) and Tales Before Narnia (2008). More Tales Before Tolkien is due out in 2025. He is also managing director of the small publishing firm Nodens Books.

Besides his blogs on Tolkien and Fantasy (mostly Tolkien-related) and A Shiver in the Archives, which highlights literary discoveries, he contributes to the blog Wormwoodiana, devoted to classic "literature of the fantastic, supernatural and decadent." And for those with even more rarified bibliophilic tastes, he also does a personal blog for Lesser-Known Writers.

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