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

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

A Mystery amongst Bibliomysteries

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In 2014, Otto Penzler published Bibliomysteries: An Annotated Bibliography of First Editions of Mystery Fiction Set in the World of Books, 1...
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Saturday, February 7, 2026

G.K. Chesterton on Fairy Tales and Modern Novels

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"Can you not see that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction about modern ...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2025

A Final Follow-up to: "All Fled, All Done": Redux on Robert E. Howard's Famous Couplet

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In January 2019, I posted on this blog "'All Fled, All Done': Redux on Robert E. Howard's Famous Couplet" , which most...
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Wednesday, February 5, 2025

A Lost Charles Williams Poem?

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I think I have happened upon a lost Charles Williams poem.  At least, after a cursory look in prominent sources on Williams, I find no menti...
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Friday, January 10, 2025

Tolkien on Mercury

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 So I see that there is a crater named Tolkien near the north pole of Mercury.  What about Lessingham? 
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Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Dunsany in California

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Lord Dunsany visited the United States five times, the final three times in the 1950s when he went to California. There he stayed with frien...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Some Offtrail S.H. Sime illustrations for Lord Dunsany, Part 2 of 2

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In the early 1920s, G.P. Putnam's Sons became Dunsany's publisher on both sides of the Atlantic. Most of the books had different dus...
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