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

Saturday, June 5, 2021

More E.A. Wyke-Smith nonsense

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I named this blog "A Shiver in the Archives," but sometimes that shiver is one of revulsion. I'm getting tired of finding phot...
Sunday, May 23, 2021

New Issues with Following Blogs by email

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The short version:  Most blogs I'm involved with have a "Follow by email" option. The "Follow by email" function wor...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

A Rider Ghost Annual

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G.F. Marson — more fully Gerald Francis Marson (1884-1969) — was a British clergyman who published a small number of books. His first two we...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Cabell and the Rabble

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I have written previously about the unknown source of the couplet that tells how to pronounce correctly Cabell's surname ("Tell th...
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Sunday, March 14, 2021

Dunsany Himself on Film

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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...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Dunsany's headstone

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