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

Sunday, April 7, 2024

Ray Bradbury on Tolkien and C.S. Lewis

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In 2023, Jonathan R. Eller edited and published a thick volume Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray Bradbury , which I'm just get...
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Monday, March 11, 2024

Dunsany on His Early Stories

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In 1917, the John W. Luce Company of Boston published a "Gift Edition," a boxed edition of six volumes of his early stories. One s...
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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

The First Edition and Early Printings of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

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[updated 8 September 2024]  Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was first published by Alfred A. Knopf of New York on 18 Sep...
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Monday, October 30, 2023

A Ghost Version of A Voyage to Arcturus

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Updated 5 November 2023 Some months ago I consulted Walter Rigdon's Notable Names in the American Theatre (1976), and in a list of ...
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Saturday, September 16, 2023

Finding E.R. Eddison in an Unexpected Place

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Chance brought me to view a copy of an anthology Great Stories of Sport (1931), edited by Thomas Moult. Scanning the contents I was surprise...
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Sunday, August 27, 2023

William Morris on Believing or Not Believing in a God

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 In his posthumous;y published A Diary (1907), William Allingham (1824-1889), a friend of William Morris, recorded on [Tuesday] 13 June 188...
Thursday, August 17, 2023

2023 Sounds a Lot Like 1968

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 Only a few specifics might be changed: The world you were born into is going nuts. Just check around you if you think I’m wrong. People s...
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