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, March 17, 2021

Cabell and the Rabble

I have written previously about the unknown source of the couplet that tells how to pronounce correctly Cabell's surname ("Tell th...

Sunday, March 14, 2021

Dunsany Himself on Film

The photograph of Dunsany reproduced at right comes from a magazine from 1950. Dunsany looks, at age 72, a bit scruffier than in most other...

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Dunsany's headstone

In perhaps the oddest scene of Digby Rumsden’s frustrating one-hour documentary on Lord Dunsany, Shooting for the Butler (2014), the filmm...

Sunday, March 7, 2021

Dunsany on Politics and Art

Dunsany was a candidate for political office in 1906. He lost. He quickly decided that his loss was a good thing. And he seems never to have...

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Dunsany's Famous Story Ledger

In the 1919 "new and revised edition" of Edward Hale Bierstadt's Dunsany the Dramatist (originally published in 1917), Bierst...

Friday, February 26, 2021

Dunsany's Wax Seals

I have previously written about Dunsany's clay caricatures at Wormwoodiana . Recently I discovered some photographs of Dunsany's se...

Sunday, February 21, 2021

Truly a Strange Creation Myth

Here follows the strangest creation tale I think I've ever encountered. Authorship at bottom. Let Us Make Gods There was once upon ...

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