Site updates
3 May 2010 — Added a page to the Notes section about Colin Wilson's writings on David Lindsay.
2 May 2010 — Added cover picture for first edition of The Haunted Woman, on that book's edition page; also an image for the Gollancz 1947's edition page. Improved image for the 1977 Del Rey paperback of A Voyage to Arcturus on that book's edition page; also added a link to a small scan of the Richard Powers frontispiece to the Gregg Press edition of A Voyage to Arcturus, on that book's edition page. Changed the link for buying David Power's David Lindsay's Vision, (as it is no longer available at the old address, and is now available via Amazon.com) on the secondary bibliography page.
20 Feb 2010 — Updated cover scan and details for the French 1975 Denoel edition of A Voyage to Arcturus.
17 Feb 2010 — Added entry for David Kanaga's Scenes from Arcturus to the Adaptations & works inspired by A Voyage to Arcturus section.
21 Oct 2009 — The UK release of A Voyage to Arcturus by Ballantine now has two pages for the two editions on the Arcturus editions page, one in 1972 (as Ballantine), one in 1974 (as Pan/Ballantine), as they have two different ISBNs. I have also added an entry on J B Pick's essay in Studies in Scottish Literature, Jan 1964, to the Secondary Bibliography page
11 Oct 2009 — Added cover scans of two new Voyage to Arcturus editions to the gallery page. One published via Amazon's POD CreateSpace (see its edition page), and one of several Kindle editions of Arcturus, notable for its unusual subtitle "Maskull on Tormance". (Arcturus was originally titled "Nightspore on Tormance").
12 Sep 2009 — Added page for ResonanceBookworks edition of Sphinx, and better cover scans for ResonanceBookworks editions of M de Mailly, and Devil's Tor.
11 June 2009 — Added a page on Robert Lynd to the Notes section.
13 May 2009 — Added links to two essays to the Links page.
12 May 2009 — Updated links to the Pauper's Press website's new location.
24 Mar 2009 — Added mention of David Power's composition Bluewright to the Witch page, in the "works inspired by" section. Added a link to an image of Stanley Kurt Lester's painting "Who is Surtur" which is up at flickr.com, to the links page.
23 Mar 2009 — Added links to Rafi Metz's reading of A Voyage to Arcturus to the links and Arcturus pages. Added a cover scan of the Gollancz 1946 edition of Arcturus, and a second image to the Gollancz 1963 edition. Added a graphic of David Lindsay's signature (taken from his army pension records) to the main page. Added a link to the Bison Press edition of Arcturus, to be found on Google Books, to the links page.
18 Feb 2009 — Added details of the Resonance BookWorks edition of Monsieur de Mailly.
31 Jan 2009 — Added a picture of the Putnam's Devil's Tor dustjacket, and information about the Resonance BookWorks editions of Devil's Tor and Arcturus.
6 Jan 2009 — The page on the Third Programme adaptation of Arcturus has been completely rewritten and expanded, now including a complete cast list, and a contemporaneous article by E H Visiak from the Radio Times on a separate page. Uploaded a new, larger, cover scan of The Violet Apple & The Witch.
24 Dec 2008 — Added a link, in the Miscellaneous section of the links page, to a set of images on flickr inspired by A Voyage to Arcturus.
28 Nov 2008 — Moved one of the alternate covers for the Ballantine edition of Arcturus to the Del Rey edition page. Uploaded a better full-size scan for the remaining alternate Ballantine edition.
22 Nov 2008 — Uploaded a full wraparound cover scan of the "Evening Star" Canongate cover for Arcturus.
19 Nov 2008 — Added Catice to the Arcturus names page, after the term came up on a Steve Wright's Afternoon Show factoid.
2 Nov 2008 — Added a note to the end of the Alexander Crawford page about the recent publication of Douglas A Anderson's article on Crawford in Wormwood #11. Added David Lindsay's mother's death to the timeline.
7 Oct 2008 — Added a full wraparound cover scan for the Gollancz 2008 edition of A Voyage to Arcturus, and another variant cover for the Ballantine edition.
19 Sep 2008 — The Witch publication details updated to link to a separate page for each edition. Added a link to an interview with Douglas A Anderson about Tales Before Tolkien to the Christmas Play page. Corrected link to the article on the George MacDonald Society website on the links page.
11 Sep 2008 — Technical update of all pages to hopefully make them load quicker.
31 Aug 2008 — Added an opinion piece, to the Notes section, asking "Is David Lindsay a Bad Writer?".
22 Aug 2008 — Added a link to the LibraryThing David Lindsay page to the links page.
31 Jul 2008 — The Devil's Tor page now links to a separate page for each edition of the book. I have also added a page to the notes section listing the books published as part of Arno Press's Lost Race and Adult Fantasy Fiction series, in which Devil's Tor was reprinted.
27 Jul 2008 — Added a variant cover image to the page for the Ballantine edition of Arcturus.
6 Jul 2008 — Added a variant cover image to the page for the Canongate edition of The Haunted Woman.
4 Jul 2008 — Created a page listing the books included in Sidgwick & Jackson's Science Fiction Special series, which included The Violet Apple in volume #33.
18 Jun 2008 — Completely rewrote (and expanded) the biography page, and made minor changes to the birthdate & place and Alexander Crawford pages after some research nailing down a few dates. Some changes made to the timeline page, too.
8 Jun 2008 — Expanded the Violet Apple editions section so there is a separate page for every edition. Plus, updated and weeded out dead links from the links page.
3 Jun 2008 — Added a review of Harold Bloom's Arcturus-influenced novel, The Flight to Lucifer to the notes page.
24 May 2008 — Added information of John Ogdon's unfinished opera based on A Voyage to Arcturus to the Arcturus adaptations section.
14 May 2008 — Added a link to an article in the Newquay Voice about David Lindsay, on the links page, Articles, essays & talks section. Sphinx editions have now been given separate pages.
12 May 2008 — The Haunted Woman editions page has also now had a tidy-up, overhall and details check. Now, every edition of The Haunted Woman should have its own page with as much information as I have on it displayed there.
8 May 2008 — The Voyage to Arcturus editions page has had a tidy-up, overhall and details check. Now, every edition of Arcturus should have its own page with as much information as I have on it displayed there. I have also added the cover of the Waking Lion Press edition of Arcturus to the gallery page.
7 May 2008 — Added cover scan of Gollancz 1978 edition of A Voyage to Arcturus to the gallery page.
6 Apr 2008 — Added Tunnel diner, an album by Steve Mackay and the Radon Ensemble to the Voyage to Arcturus index page, as it contains a track called "Voyage to Arcturus".
28 Mar 2008 — Added details of Tutis Digital Publishing's large print edition of A Voyage to Arcturus to the editions page, and cover scan to the gallery page.
20 Mar 2008 — Added details of a Russian edition of The Haunted Woman, with cover, to the Haunted Woman editions and gallery pages. Also details of two Russian editions (from 1993 & 2004) of A Voyage to Arcturus, on the Arcturus editions and gallery pages. Changed site pages to UTF-8 character set encoding to keep up with all this Cyrillic.
22 Feb 2008 — Added link to information about Bob Pepper, the artist of the Ballantine Voyage to Arcturus cover, from the editions page.
9 Feb 2008 — Updated details of the the German (Heyne 1986) edition of The Haunted Woman to the editions page, now including the name of the translator, and updated the cover scan accessible from the gallery page.
27 Jan 2008 — Added a picture of L H Myers to the relevant notes page. Added the Black Cat Press edition of A Voyage to Arcturus to the editions and gallery pages. Added a scan of a contemporary review for one of Alexander Crawford's novels, to the relevant notes page. Added a reviews section to the M de Mailly page, starting out with a contemporary review from the New York Times.
10 Jan 2008 — Added info about the 2007 republication of Gary K Wolfe's Reader's Guide to David Lindsay to the secondary bibliography page; added details and cover image of the Wilder Publications edition of Arcturus to the editions and gallery pages.
24 Oct 2007 — Added link to the MySpace page of a band called The Violet Apple to the links page, Miscellaneous section.
17 Oct 2007 — Added review of E H Visiak: Writer and Mystic.
10 Oct 2007 — Added link to the Intute web directory to the links page.
6 Oct 2007 — Added BiblioBazaar large print edition of Arcturus to the Arcturus editions page, plus cover in the Arcturus gallery page. Added Paupers Press link on the buying page.
19 Sep 2007 — Added a page with a photograph of Pemrboke Crescent, Hove, where David Lindsay lived.
22 Jul 2007 — Added the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble's production of A Voyage to Arcturus to the list of adaptaions on the Voyage to Arcturus page. Additions to the links page: a podcast discussion of Arcturus, the use of Arcturus as a text for an article on the text layout description language TeX, and an article on Gnosticism in SF.
21 Jun 2007 — Added three titles to the Gollancz Fantasy & Macabre series list, thanks to Paul Annis. Added link to The Haunted Woman on Gutenberg Australia to the links page. Minor site-wide technical update (external links & formatting).
8 Jun 2007 — updated links to Tartarus Press, on their new server.
3 Jun 2007 — improved cover scan of the Savoy Press and Bison Press editions, and improved details on Bison book on the editions page.
27 May 2007 — added a cover scan of Colin Wilson's The Haunted Man to the secondary bibliography page.
26 May 2007 — updated details on the 1985 US Citadel Press edition of A Voyage to Arcturus on the editions page, including better cover scan for the gallery page, (this cover was previously misattributed to the Carol Publishing edition). Removed 1989 Citadel Press edition, as I'm not sure if this is correct.
6 May 2007 — added a link to a mention of Arcturus in a Gene Wolfe interview to the links page.
3 May 2007 — improved cover scan of the 1986 Heyne edition of Die Reise Zum Arcturus on the gallery page, and improved details of the book's entry on the Arcturus editions page, plus an illustrations gallery for this edition's interior illustrations.
29 Apr 2007 — added a page about Henry Kaiser's album, The Seance. Links to two people called Joiwind under Miscellaneous Links.
21 Apr 2007 — added the 1978 Gollancz HB reissue of A Voyage to Arcturus as a separate entry in the editions page, as it is not merely a reprint, but a new edition in a new Gollancz series; added information about the Gollancz Fantasy Collection to the Gollancz reissue series lists page.
17 Apr 2007 — better full cover scan of Bernard Sellin's Life & Works of David Lindsay.
14 Apr 2007 — better cover scan of Allison and Busby paperback edition of A Voyage to Arcturus, plus some alterations to this edition's entry on the Arcturus editions page.
8 Apr 2007 — better scan of the Times radio listing mentioning the Voyage to Arcturus dramatisation.
31 Mar 2007 — better cover scan of Canongate edition of A Voyage to Arcturus; added a page in the Notes section listing the books in Gollancz's various fantasy reissue series.
30 Mar 2007 — minor changes to the biography and timeline; added a brief quote from Bernard Sellin to the page on Alexander Crawford, and to the Voyage to Arcturus comparisons page; provided a better graphic for the Sphinx and Haunted Woman Times ads
25 Mar 2007 — changed the Philosophical Notes page to a Non-fiction page, so it can also cover the publication of Lindsay's letters. Fleshed out the entry on Bernard Sellin's book on the Secondary Bibliography page. Added mention of the letters publication, and the 1946 BBC radio programme on Lindsay to the Timeline.
7 Mar 2007 — changed the entry on Sellin's Life & Works of David Lindsay on the secondary bibliography page as it is now published.
26 Feb 2007 — more details (though based on a Google translation) on the Japanese editions of A Voyage to Arcturus and The Haunted Woman; link to John Coulthart's site on links page.
24 Feb 2007 — better cover scan of Sphere edition of A Voyage to Arcturus, corrected Sphere edition date to 1980, slightly better cover scan for one of the Canongate editions (see Arcturus editions page).
12 Feb 2007 — more details on 1975 Heyne edition of A Voyage to Arcturus, on the Arcturus editions page, plus larger cover scan
31 Jan 2007 — revised and extended the summary of The Witch; new article link on the links page
28 Jan 2007 — some more details to foreign editions of A Voyage to Arcturus and The Haunted Woman
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