Tuesday, June 25, 2019

James Branch Cabell's Precious Balms

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In 1924, Arthur Machen published a small volume entitled Precious Balms , collecting bad reviews his works had received over his publishing ...
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Sunday, June 2, 2019

A C.S. Lewis Mystery

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In September 1966, a previously unpublished short story "Forms of Things Unknown" by C.S. Lewis appeared posthumously in his colle...
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Sunday, March 31, 2019

Dunsany's "Episodes from The Second Book of Wonder"

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Twelve tales from Dunsany's The Book of Wonder first appeared in The Sketch between December 1910 and March 1911.  Two further tales w...
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Monday, March 25, 2019

Early Caitlin R. Kiernan

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Caitlin R. Kiernan was born in 1964 as Kenneth Robert Wright.  Before she transitioned around 1990,  two early stories appeared in The Fresh...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Dunsany in the early 1910s

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The Sketch also has some nice photographs of Dunsany, at the time he was writing the tales for which he would become famous.  Here are two, ...
Monday, March 18, 2019

Sime in 1910

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A nice photograph (by E.O. Hopp é ) of S.H. Sime appeared in The Sketch for 28 December 1910. The demonic face, with lighted eyes, peering ...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019

A Lost Sime Illustration for Dunsany's Book of Wonder

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Dunsany's Book of Wonder was published by William Heinemann in November 1912.  It contains fourteen tales, twelve of which originally a...
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