A Shiver in the Archives

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Here is a newspaper appearance, from the Billings Gazette of 29 April 1934, of a "new" poem by Lord Dunsany.

Jack Finney's second novel, The Body Snatchers, was first serialized in shortened form in Collier's magazine in three parts, from 26 November to 24 December 1954.

Peter Haining (1940-2007) was a hugely prolific editor of single-author collections and multi-author anthologies, many of which appeared to dig up lost or forgotten stories by famous authors.

In 2014, Otto Penzler published Bibliomysteries: An Annotated Bibliography of First Editions of Mystery Fiction Set in the World of Books, 1849-2000.

"Can you not see that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction about modern life is in its nature essentially incredible?

In January 2019, I posted on this blog "'All Fled, All Done': Redux on Robert E.

I think I have happened upon a lost Charles Williams poem.

So I see that there is a crater named Tolkien near the north pole of Mercury.

Lord Dunsany visited the United States five times, the final three times in the 1950s when he went to California.

In the early 1920s, G.P.

William Hope Hodgson married Bessie Gertrude Farnworth in Kensington, London, on 26 February 1913, and the newlyweds soon settled in Sanary, Var, on the south coast of France.

S.H.

It must have been in the late 1970s that I read Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles (five novels, plus occasional shorter pieces collected in The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain in 1982).

In 2023, Jonathan R.

In 1917, the John W.

[updated 8 September 2024] Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was first published by Alfred A.

Updated 5 November 2023 Some months ago I consulted Walter Rigdon's Notable Names in the American Theatre (1976), and in a list of "Premieres in America" I found an unexpected reference to a theatrical performance of A Voyage to Arcturus in New York in 19…

Chance brought me to view a copy of an anthology Great Stories of Sport (1931), edited by Thomas Moult.

In his posthumous;y published A Diary (1907), William Allingham (1824-1889), a friend of William Morris, recorded on [Tuesday] 13 June 1882 a discussion he had with Morris: Walking with William Morris from the Society of Arts to Bloomsbury last Friday, we…

Only a few specifics might be changed: The world you were born into is going nuts.

The Literary Digest was a weekly American magazine published by the Funk & Wagnalls Company of New York.

In 1981, William Gibson was three years away from publishing his award-winning first novel, Neuromancer.

From Pearson's Weekly, 4 July 1907: “Guy Thorne” (C.

From Pearson's Weekly, 4 July 1907: "Dick Donovan" who is busily writing a splendid series of stories that will start shortly in Pearson's.