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

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

A Lost Charles Williams Poem?

I think I have happened upon a lost Charles Williams poem. At least, after a cursory look in prominent sources on Williams, I find no menti...

Friday, January 10, 2025

Tolkien on Mercury

So I see that there is a crater named Tolkien near the north pole of Mercury. What about Lessingham?

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Dunsany in California

Lord Dunsany visited the United States five times, the final three times in the 1950s when he went to California. There he stayed with frien...

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Some Offtrail S.H. Sime illustrations for Lord Dunsany, Part 2 of 2

In the early 1920s, G.P. Putnam's Sons became Dunsany's publisher on both sides of the Atlantic. Most of the books had different dus...

Thursday, August 8, 2024

"Breakfast Makes Us Britons": A William Hope Hodgson Letter Discovered

William Hope Hodgson married Bessie Gertrude Farnworth in Kensington, London, on 26 February 1913, and the newlyweds soon settled in Sanary,...

Saturday, July 27, 2024

Some Offtrail S.H. Sime illustrations for Lord Dunsany, Part 1 of 2

S.H. Sime's full-page illustrations for the books of Lord Dunsany run from The Gods of Pegana (1905) through My Talks with Dean Spanley ...

Friday, June 14, 2024

Where do You Get Your Ideas? Lloyd Alexander responds

It must have been in the late 1970s that I read Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles (five novels, plus occasional shorter pieces collec...

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