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

Thursday, January 31, 2019

Does This Booklet Exist or Not?

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In 2010, the shortlived Bandersnatch Books was supposed to publish a small chapbook by T.M. Wright (1947-2015)  titled The People on the Isl...
Friday, January 18, 2019

"All Fled, All Done": Redux on Robert E. Howard's Famous Couplet

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The legend* has altered in the retelling, from a slip found in Robert E. Howard's wallet after his suicide in June 1936, to it being the...
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Thursday, December 27, 2018

Dunsany, Smiling . . .

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A recent acquisition is an odd, college magazine, The Oread Magazine from the University of Kansas in Lawrence.  This issue is dated March 2...
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Sunday, August 5, 2018

Lord Dunsany and the "Dictator" series

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In 1933, the publisher E.V. Lucas of Methuen in London came up with the idea for a series of small books  to be authored by "a number o...
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Friday, July 27, 2018

David Lindsay: Familiar Bindings

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Mark Valentine recently wrote at Wormwoodiana (direct URL here ) about Mary Tyrwhitt Drake's novel Outgoing Tides , published by John L...
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Sunday, February 18, 2018

The Dust-Wrapper for David Lindsay's Devil's Tor

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The first edition of David Lindsay's Devil's Tor , published by G.P. Putnam's Sons of London in April 1932, has an elegant dust-...
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Monday, January 8, 2018

The Pamphlet Edition of Dunsany's CARCASSONNE Dated at Last!

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There was a undated pamphlet edition of Lord Dunsany's short story Carcassonne released by the John W. Luce Company sometime in the pas...
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