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Secondary Bibliography

On this page I attempt to provide a bibliography of all the books, articles and essays dealing significantly with David Lindsay and his work. I haven't included books or essays that merely mention him, or go through standard information (encyclopedia entries, for instance). Where possible, I've linked to online versions of the articles (look for the word link after the article details). If I've written a review, summary, or note on the article/book elsewhere on this site, you'll find a on-site review link after the entry.

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Books
The Life & Works of David Lindsay, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge) (1981) — translated by Kenneth Gunnellon-site review
David Lindsay (Starmont Reader's Guide 9), Starmont House (June 1982) • on-site review
David Lindsay's Vision, Paupers' Press (1991) — reissued in revised form as an ebook by Maurice Bassett publications (eBook) 2005; Kindle edition (2007).on-site review
The Lament of Prometheus: An Examination of David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus, Still Waters/Wisecraft (Jan 2020) — kindle ebook onlyon-site review
Articles & essays (print)
"A Remarkable Romance" in Edinburgh Evening News (Edinburgh) (29 Sep 1920, p. 5)
"A Voyage to Arcturus" in Glasgow Herald (Glasgow) (24 Sep 1920, p. 6)
"Recent Fiction" in Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer (13 Oct 1920, p. 4) — review of A Voyage to Arcturus
"A Voyage to Arcturus" in The Times Literary Supplement (no. 976, 30 Sep 1920, p. 637)
"New Novels: A Voyage to Arcturus" in The Guardian (1st Oct 1920, p. 5)
"Books and Authors: Adventures" in The Daily News (London) (13 Oct 1920, p. 8) — review of A Voyage to Arcturus, alongside Adam of Dublin by Conal O'Riordan and A Gift of the Dusk by R O Prowse
"Other-World Imaginings" in The Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore) (20 Mar 1921, p. 13)
"Voyage to the Unknown" in Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW) (20 Mar 1921, p. 19) link
"A Letter on Books" in The Register (Adelaide, South Australia) (8th Jan 1921, p. 5) — under the subheading, A Book of Marvels, manages to give away the final page twist link
"The Literary Log" in The Bystander (16 Feb 1921, p. 360) — reviews A Voyage to Arcturus (2 long paragraphs)
"New Fiction (The Haunted Woman)" in The Nation & The Athenaeum (vol. 30 no. 25, 18 Mar, No. 4794 1922, p. 901) — Reviews of The Grey Room by Eden Phillpotts, The Haunted Woman by David Lindsay, The Awakening by Hugh and Edith Spender, and The Education of Alice by Elsa Fish. link
"The Haunted Woman" in The Daily Telegraph (5 Sep 1922, p. 4)
"The Haunted Woman" in The Times Literary Supplement (16 Feb 1922, p. 110)
"The Haunted Woman" in Edinburgh Evening News (Edinburgh) (18 Feb 1922, p. 4)
"The Queer House" in The Daily News (London) (13 Feb 1922, p. 7)
"Books: The Haunted Woman" in Truth (London) (vol. 91 no. 2364, 22 Feb 1922, p. 327) — one-paragraph review
"The Haunted Woman by David Lindsay" in Occult Review (London) (vol. 35, 1922) link
"A Batch of Novels" in Western Mail (Cardiff) (27 Dec 1923, p. 9) — two-sentence positive review of Sphinx, among other novels
"Sphinx" in The Times Literary Supplement (27 Dec 1923, p. 910)
"The Feminine Mind - "Sphinx" by David Lindsay" in Leeds Mercury (Leeds) (23 Dec 1923, p. 6)
"Current Literature - Sphinx" in The Scotsman (24 Jan 1924, p. 2)
"Sphinx" in Dundee Courier (17 Jan 1924, p. 7)
"The Sphinx by David Lindsay" in Aberdeen Press and Journal (11 Jan 1924, p. 2)
"Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly" in Aberdeen Press and Journal (Aberdeen) (13 Dec 1926, p. 2)
"Current Literature: Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly" in The Scotsman (7 Oct 1926, p. 2)
"Other Novels" in The Spectator (9 Oct 1926, pp. 602-3) — short review: "Old Paris in the first years of the eighteenth century makes the background of the Adventures of Monsieur De Mailly by David Lindsay (Andrew Melrose. 7s. 6d. net). The book is full of excitement." link
"Recent Novels: Romantic: The Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly" in Sheffield Daily Telegraph (Sheffield) (28 Oct 1926, p. 8)
"A Blade for Sale" in The Birmingham News (Birmingham, Alabama) (10 Apr 1927, p. 16)
"A Blade for Sale"" in The Charlestone Daily Mail (Charleston, West Virginia) (3 Apr 1927, p. 2) — short review
"A French Adventurer" in The New York Times (12 Jun 1927) — review of A Blade for Sale
"War Adventure" in The Lima News (Ohio) (20 Jun 1927, p. 10)
"Splendid Romance" in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Book Section (15 May 1927, p. 17)
"A Touch of Dumas" in The Evening Sun (Baltimore, Maryland) (18 Jun 1927, p. 6)
"A Blade for Sale" in Detroit Free Press Feature Section (22 Jan 1928, p. 8)
"A Grand Mystery" in Aberdeen Press and Journal (Aberdeen) (25 May 1932, p. 2) — review of Devil's Tor
"A Great Book" in Musselburgh News (East Lothian, Scotland) (10 Jun 1932, p. 3) — short review of Devil's Tor
"Books of the Day: Devil's Tor" in The Scotsman (5 May 1932, p. 2)
"Devil's Tor" in Exeter and Plymouth Gazette (22 April 1932, p. 7) — accompanied by photo of Lindsay
"Devil's Tor" in Gloucestershire Echo (25 Apr 1932, p. 4)
"Devil's Tor" in The Times Literary Supplement (2 Jun 1932, p. 409)
"In a Dartmoor setting" in The Northern Whig and Blefast Post (4 May 1932, p. 9)
"New Novels: Trials in the Occult" in Glasgow Herald (Glasgow) (28 May 1932, p. 4) — also reviews The Greater Trumps by Charles Williams, The Bright Temptation by Austin Clarke, The Bud of the Spring by Mary Francis M'Hugh, and Flight into Darkness by Arthur Schnitzler
"Some Recent Fiction" in The West Australian (Perth) (28th May 1932, p. 4) link
"Men Who Talk Like Gods" in Everyman (5 May 1932, p. 469) link
"A Supernatural Drama" in The Guardian (6 May 1932, p. 7) — review of Devil's Tor
"Books I Have Read" in Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer (14 Dec 1932, p. 6) — brief review of Devil's Tor
"Queer Happenings on Dartmoor" in Western Morning News (2 May 1932, p. 2) — review of Devil's Tor
"Devil's Tor" in The Sketch (London) (17 Aug 1932, p. 304) — also reviews Ballerina by Lady Eleanor Smith, The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan, King's Crew by Frank R Adams, The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie. This is different from Hartley's piece in The Weekend Review.
"Devil's Tor" in Weekend Review (1932) — review of Devil's Tor, cited by Pick
"Devil's Tor by David Lindsay" in Quarterly Transactions of the British College of Psychic Science (London) (vol. XI no. 3, Oct 1932, p. 250) link
"Talk of the Town: Notes on Men and Things: A Ferring Author" in The Worthing Herald (Worthing) (14 May 1932, p. 10)
"The Fantastic in Fiction" in The Evening Standard (London) (28 Apr 1932, p. 7) — also reviews Charles Williams' The Greater Trumps, and others. This review also appeared in The Yorkshire Evening Post, 28 April 1932, p. 3; and in Australia in Table Talk (Melbourne, Victoria), 30 Jun 1932, p. 22, as "Examples of Good Fantastic Fiction".
"Fiction" in The Spectator (no. 5419, 7 May 1932, p. 678) — includes review of Devil's Tor link
"Absurdities about Novels and their Readers. Our Vast Working-Class Reading Public." in Daily Telegraph (May 6 1932, p. 7) — Review of Fiction and the Reading Public by Q.D. Leavis; Devil's Tor by David Lindsay and Home for the Holidays by R.H. Mottram. An extract is quoted by J B Pick in The Strange Genius of David Lindsay, p. 26.
"The Arcturan Shadow" in Notes and Queries (no. 178, 30 Mar 1940, pp. 225-227) — reprinted in the Gollancz Rare Works of Imaginative Literature editions of A Voyage to Arcturus, as an introduction
"A Voyage to Arcturus" in The Irish Times (Dublin) (21 Sep 1946, p. 4)
"Short Reviews" in The Sphere (London) (31 Aug 1946, p. 284) — includes a short review of A Voyage to Arcturus
"After Twenty-Six Years" in John O'London's Weekly (London) (vol. LIV no. 1280, 8 Mar 1946, p. 236) — short piece in A Bookman's Diary about the reissue of A Voyage to Arcturus, with a brief quote from Lindsay's wife
"New Fiction" in The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, NSW) (23rd Nov 1946, p. 11) link
"Metaphysical Allegory: Life On Imaginary Planet" in The Argus (Melbourne, Victoria) (9th Nov 1946, p. 12) link
"Latest Fiction" in The Advertiser (Adelaide, South Australia) (4th Jan 1947, p. 4) link
"Today's Book Review: Unusual and Interesting" in The Telegraph (Brisbane, Queensland) (28th Feb 1947, p. 2) link
"Three Love Stories" in Country Life (London) (vol. CI no. 2617, 14 Mar 1947, p. 481) — reviews The Haunted Woman among others link
"A Strange Scottish Novel — David Lindsay's 'A Voyage to Arcturus'" in Scots Chronicle (Kilmarnock) (1951, pp. 22-27) link
"5 Star Shelf: A Voyage to Arcturus" in Galaxy Magazine (New York) (vol. 9 no. 3, December 1954, pp. 107-111) link
"Sound Broadcasting: Drama: Science Fiction" in The Listener (London) (vol. LVI no. 1422, 28 Jun 1956, pp. 903-4) — review of the Third Programme adaptation
"A Voyage to Arcturus" in Radio Times (vol. 131 no. 1702, 22 June 1956, p. 4) — introduces the Third Programme adaptation of A Voyage to Arcturus link
"Sound Broadcasting: Drama: One Man's Truth" in The Listener (London) (vol. LVII no. 1460, 21 Mar 1957, p. 489) — review of Third Programme adaptation
"Fantastica: A Voyage to Arcturus, The Purple Cloud, Medusa" in The Times Literary Supplement (5 Jul 1963, p. 497)
"Precursors to Science Fiction Get a Second Reading" in The Times (29 Aug 1963, p. 11) — along with The Purple Cloud and Medusa
"Adventures on a Distant Star" in New York Times Book Review (24 Nov 1963, p. 60)
"Rare Fiction" in The Irish Times (Dublin) (29 Jun 1963, p. 10) — reviews M P Shiel's The Purple Cloud, Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus, and E H Visiak's Medusa
"Halloween Reading: Goblins Will Get You, So Watch Out" in Buffalo Evening News (26 Oct 1963, pp. B-10) — Brady was a correspondent of C S Lewis, and it's a 1944 letter to him that gives us Lewis's view of Arcturus as the "real father" of his Space Trilogy; here Brady finally reads Lindsay's novel!
"Rare Books" in The New Statesman (14 Jun 1963, p. 905)
"Introduction to A Voyage to Arcturus" in A Voyage to Arcturus (Macmillan) (New York) (1963, pp. vii-x)
"Daniyal on Arcturus" in Delta: The Cambridge Literary Magazine (Cambridge) (no. 29, Feb 1963, pp. 22-27)
"Science Fiction" in New York Review of Books (New York) (12 Dec 1963, pp. 23-24)
"Three Tales Of Vivid Imagination Are Saved From Oblivion" in The Sydney Morning Herald (28 Sep 1963, p. 15)
"Fanciful Flight to Arcturus" in The Arizona Republic (27 Oct 1963, p. 63)
"Purple Clouds" in The Bulletin (Sydney, Australia) (vol. 85 no. 4365, 12 Oct 1963, pp. 48-50) — also reviews M P Shiel's The Purple Cloud, and E H Visiak's Medusa link
"A Re-Issue of Three Neglected Works of Fiction" in The Age (Melbourne) (31 Aug 1963, p. 19)
"The Puritan Content Is Worth While" in The Kansas City Star (27 Oct 1963, p. 80)
"A Voyage to Arcturus (Letter)" in The Times Literary Supplement (12 July 1963, p. 509) — Letter responding to the review of A Voyage to Arcturus
"Weathered Neo-Gothick" in Punch (vol. 244 no. 6406, 19 Jun 1963, pp. 901-902) — reviews A Voyage to Arcturus, Medusa, and The Purple Cloud link
"A Voyage to Arcturus" in Fantasy & Science Fiction (vol. 26 no. 3, Mar 1964, p. 82)
"A multi-stage vehicle" in The San Francisco Examiner (12 Jan 1964, p. 18) — a slightly edited version of this review also appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 16 Feb 1964, p. 7
"From the Library" in Newark Advocate (Ohio) (1 Feb 1964, p. 9) — brief review alongside other books
"The Reference Library: A Voyage to Arcturus" in Analog (vol. 73 no. 2, Apr 1964, p. 92)
"Metaphysical thillers" in The Scotsman (Week-End Magazine) (Edinburgh) (14 May 1964, p. 2) — reviews M P Shiel's The Isle of Lies and Lindsay's The Haunted Woman
"The Work of David Lindsay" in Studies in Scottish Literature (vol. 1 no. 3, Jan 1964, pp. 171-182) linkon-site review
"TV's in Outer Space" in Transvestia (Los Angeles) (vol. I no. 32, Apr 1965, pp. 39-41) — article from a magazine for transvestites, quoting the childhood portion of Panawe's story, and describing it as "one of the most enlightened and beautiful presentations of the essence of the phenomenon that possesses us all". link
"Lindsay — A Voyage to Arcturus" in Eagle and Earwig (John Baker) (London) (1965, pp. 128-161) • on-site review
"A Voyage to Arcturus" in Amazing (vol. 42 no. 2, Jul 1968, pp. 119-120) — (William Atheling Jr is a pseudonym for James Blish) link
"A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay" in Science Fiction Review (no. 31, June 1969, pp. 37-38) link
"A Voyage to Arcturus" in SF Commentary (vol. 7, Nov 1969, pp. 36-37) — first appeared in The Journal of Omphalistic Epistemology, July 1969 (another fanzine) link
"A Voyage to Arcturus" in Venture (vol. 3 no. 1, May 1969, pp. 114-115)
"A Voyage to Arcturus, by David Lindsay" in The WSFA Journal (Washington D.C.) (no. 67, Jun-Jul 1969, p. 34) link
"A Voyage to Arcturus" in Luna Monthly (no. 5, Oct 1969, p. 32) link
"Dream-Literature and Science Fiction" in Extrapolation (no. 11, 1969, pp. 6-14)
"Sublimities in a Blotting-paper Style" in The Times Literary Supplement (20 Nov 1970, p. 1346) — review of The Strange Genius of David Lindsay
"Town wakes to a 'genius'" in The Evening Argus (Brighton) (22 Oct 1970) — news item about how the publication of The Strange Genius led to Hove and Brighton libraries realising they didn't have any of Lindsay's books in stock
"The Sussex genius the world passed by during his life" in The Evening Argus (Brighton) (19 Oct 1970, p. 7) — review of The Strange Genius of David Lindsay
"David Lindsay: a Scottish novelist of genius" in The Scotsman (Edinburgh) (7 Nov 1970, p. 19) — review of The Strange Genius of David Lindsay
"A sketch of Lindsay's life as a man and writer" in The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (John Baker) (London) (1970, pp. 3-32) • on-site review
"The unpublished novels: The Violet Apple and The Witch" in The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (John Baker) (London) (1970, pp. 139-182)
"Arcturus and the Christian Dogma" in The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (John Baker) (London) (1970, pp. 109-111)
"Devil's Tor" in The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (John Baker) (London) (1970, pp. 116-135)
"Discovering a genius" in The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (John Baker) (London) (1970, pp. 95-96)
"Lindsay as I knew him" in The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (John Baker) (London) (1970, pp. 97-102)
"The Haunted Woman" in The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (John Baker) (London) (1970, pp. 103-108)
"The Nature of Lindsay's Genius" in The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (John Baker) (London) (1970, pp. 112-115)
"Lindsay as novelist and mystic" in The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (John Baker) (London) (1970, pp. 35-91) — reprinted on its own as The Haunted Man: The Strange Genius of David Lindsay, The Borgo Press, San Bernadino, 1979; and as an appendix to the Savoy Books edition of A Voyage to Arcturus (2002).on-site review
"Pick of the Month: Fiction" in The Scotsman (Edinburgh) (26 Feb 1972, p. 19) — brief review of A Voyage to Arcturus
"The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris, A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay" in ERG (Sheffield) (no. 40, Oct/Sep 1972, p. 15) link
"Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay" in Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society (no. 6, 1972, pp. 19-21) link
"Cosmic Imagery in A Voyage to Arcturus" in Extrapolation (no. 13, 1972, pp. 146-151)
"J. B. Pick, Colin Wilson & E. H. Visiak. The Strange Genius of David Lindsay. An Appreciation (Review)" in Studies in Scottish Literature (vol. 10 no. 1, July 1972, pp. 59-61) link
"Review: The Strange Genius of David Lindsay" in Lines Review (no. 40, Mar 1972, pp. 45-46)
""Purely as Entertainment"? Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly as a Representative Work of David Lindsay" in Studies in Scottish Literature (vol. 11 no. 4, 1973, pp. 226-236) link
"A Voyage to Arcturus" in Fantasiae (The Monthly Newsletter of the Fantasy Association) (Los Angeles) (vol. 1 no. 4, Jul 1973)
"A Voyage to Arcturus, part II" in Fantasiae (The Monthly Newsletter of the Fantasy Association) (Los Angeles) (vol. 1 no. 6, Sep 1973) — second part of essay (following on from the July issue), plus a review of the Holloway film
"With Maskull on Arcturus" in The Cavalier Daily (Charlottesville, Virginia) (27 Jun 1973, p. 2) — long (mostly positive) review, which includes a cartoon in which "Mr Lindsay" (as a dragon) "makes notes for A Voyage to Arcturus". link
"Tormance and C. S. Lewis" in CSL: the Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society (New York) (vol. 5 no. 7, May (whole no. 55) 1974, pp. 4-5) — p. 1-2 contain notes about the meeting where this essay was read out, and comments from those present.
"Language and Logic in A Voyage to Arcturus" in Scottish Literary Journal (vol. 1 no. 1, July 1974, pp. 29-39)
"David Lindsay and George MacDonald" in Studies in Scottish Literature (vol. 12 no. 2, Oct 1974, pp. 131-145) link
"Arcturus - A Provocative Experience" in California Aggie (University of California, Davis) (vol. 87 no. 32, 19 Feb 1975, p. 6) link
"The Haunted Woman" in Locus (no. 174, Jun 1975, p. 6)
"The Haunted Woman" in The Science Fiction Review (Monthly) (no. 4, Jun 1975, p. 13)
"The Haunted Woman" in Fantasiae (vol. 3 no. 8, Aug 1975, p. 4)
"Fantasy and New Directions" in The Craft of the Novel (Gollancz) (London) (1975) — final chapter in this book looks at the work of Tolkien and David Lindsayon-site review
"The Previously Unpublished Novels of David Lindsay" in Scottish Literary Journal (Supplement #3 1976, pp. 14-25)
"Foreword (to The Violet Apple)" in The Violet Apple & The Witch (Chicago Review Press) (Chicago, Ill.) (1976, pp. 21-23)
"Foreword (to The Witch)" in The Violet Apple & The Witch (Chicago Review Press) (Chicago, Ill.) (1976, pp. 253-255)
"The Haunted Woman" in Luna Monthly (no. 61, Jan 1976, p. 30) link
"The Haunted Woman" in Delap's F & SF Review (vol. 2 no. 4, Apr 1976, p. 23)
"Introduction" in The Violet Apple & The Witch (Chicago Review Press) (Chicago, Ill.) (1976, pp. 1-18) • on-site review
"Paperbacks: From Adolf Hitler to science fiction" in The Tacoma News Tribune (23 Oct 1977, p. 11)
"Introduction to A Voyage to Arcturus" in A Voyage to Arcturus (Gregg Press) (Boston) (1977, pp. v-xvii)
"A Voyage to Arcturus" in Science Fiction Studies (vol. 4 no. 3, Nov 1977, p. 322)
"Conflation of Genres and Myths in David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus" in The Journal of Narrative Technique (no. 7, 1977, pp. 149-155)
"Symbolic Fantasy" in Genre (no. 8, 1977, pp. 194-209)
"Visionary Allegory in David Lindsay's "A Voyage to Arcturus"" in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (vol. 77 no. 1, Jan 1978, pp. 72-91)
"David Lindsay: 'the most extraordinary Scottish novelist of this century'" in The Scotsman (Edinburgh) (01 Jul 1978, p. 19)
"Introduction" in The Violet Apple (Sedgwick & Jackson) (London) (1978, pp. 9-12)
"The Violet Apple" in Vector (no. 89, Sep 1978, pp. 36-38) link
"The Violet Apple" in British Book News (London) (Oct 1978, p. 844) link
"The Violet Apple" in Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction (no. 17, Sep 1979, pp. 97-99)
"Colin Wilson, The Haunted Man" in Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review (Nov 1979, p. 148)
"Devil's Tor: A Rehabilitation of David Lindsay's 'Monster'" in Extrapolation (vol. 21 no. 4, Winter 1980, pp. 367-378)
"David Lindsay and the Sublime" in Cencrastus (Glasgow) (no. 2, Spring 1980, p. 15–17)
"The Structure of A Voyage to Arcturus" in Studies in Scottish Literature (vol. 15, 1980, pp. 262-267) link
"Biography of author out soon" in West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser (26 Feb 1981, p. 13) — short news item about Sellin's biography, as translator Kenneth Gunnell lived in West Cornwall area, as did Lindsay
"David Lindsay's The Haunted Woman" in Fantasy Commentator (New York) (vol. IV no. 3, Winter 1981, p. 159) link
"Towards the essential Lindsay" in The Scotsman (Edinburgh) (23 May 1981, p. 19) — review of Bernard Sellin's The Life and Works of David Lindsay
"Other worlds, other smells" in The Times Literary Supplement (London) (19 Jun 1981, p. 702) — review of Sellin's Life and Works of David Lindsay
"Dualities in David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus" in Extrapolation (vol. 22 no. 2, Summer 1981, pp. 164-170)
"Clinamen: Towards a Theory of Fantasy" in Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism (Oxford University Press) (New York) (1982, pp. 200-223) • on-site review
"Bernard Sellin, The Life and Work of David Lindsay" in Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction (no. 24, Feb 1982, p. 103)
"Bernard Sellin, The Life and Works of David Lindsay" in Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review (Jan-Feb 1982, p. 4)
"Arcturus Revisited: David Lindsay and the Quest for Muspel-Fire" in AB Bookman's Weekly (October 1 1984, pp. 2131-2146) — reprinted in Discovering Classic Fantasy Fiction: Essays on the Antecedents of Fantastic Literature (Wildside Press, 1996)
"Science Fiction and Gnosticism" in The Missouri Review (University of Missouri) (vol. 7 no. 2, 1984, pp. 112-120) — looks at works by Philip K Dick, David Lindsay, and Olaf Stapledon, among others
"Nachrichten von Nirgendwo, part 1" in Science Fiction Times (Germany) (vol. 26 no. 1, Jan 1984, pp. 10-14) — Parts 2-4 followed in issues 2-4, (pages 12-15; 21-24; 25-28). Download links for these issues: issue 2, issue 3, issue 4. link
"A Mystic's Reality" in The Orlando Sentinel (11 Aug 1985, p. F5)
"Fables, fantasy a la Kafka" in The Stuart News (Florida) (18 Aug 1985, p. D2)
"Texte et le Néant: Structures Métaphysiques dans A Voyage to Arcturus de David Lindsay" in Just the Other Day: Essays on the Suture of the Future, ed. Luk De Vos (Antwerp) (1985, pp. 227-234)
"The Life and Works of David Lindsay by Bernard Sellin, Kenneth Gunnell" in The Yearbook of English Studies, Anglo-French Literary Relations Special Number (vol. 15, 1985, pp. 335-336)
"Voyage Cosmique: H. G. Wells, David Lindsay, C. S. Lewis" in Just the Other Day: Essays on the Suture of the Future, ed. Luk De Vos (Antwerp) (1985, pp. 235-248)
"Nachrichten von Nirgendwo: Über Dichtung und Vision im Werk David Lindsays" in Just the Other Day: Essays on the Suture of the Future, ed. Luk De Vos (Antwerp) (1985, pp. 205-226) — also used as the introduction to the Heyne (1986) edition of A Voyage to Arcturus
"The Drum of A Voyage to Arcturus" in Extrapolation (vol. 26 no. 2, Summer 1985, pp. 143-151) — also appears, updated, in The Tragic Thread in Science Fiction, Hippocampus Press, 2019
"A Voyage to Arcturus" in New Statesman (vol. 2905, Nov 28 1986, p. 35)
"David Lindsay: A Scottish Genius" in Scottish Book Collector (Edinburgh) (vol. 1 no. 1, August 1987, pp. 21-22) link
"Maskull and Ransom: The Dark Night of the Soul" in Mythlore (no. 52, 1987, pp. 30-31, 40)
"Zwischen Gnosis, Tiefenpsychologie und Surrealismus. Kulturgeschichtliche Gedanken zu David Lindsays Roman 'Die Reise zum Arcturus'" in Das Science Fiction Jahr, ed. Jeschke, Wolfgang (Munich) (no. 2, 1987, pp. 561-574)
"Introduction" in The Haunted Woman (Canongate) (Edinburgh) (1987, pp. vii-xiii)
"Sphinx" in Kirkus Reviews (July 1988) link
"Sphinx" in Publishers Weekly (vol. 233 no. 23, Jun 10 1988, p. 66)
"The Art of David Lindsay" in Cencrastus (Glasgow) (no. 29, Spring 1988, pp. 15-16)
"R H W Dillard on David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus" in Rediscoveries II: Important Writers Select Their Favorite Works of Neglected Fiction (Carrol & Graf) (New York) (1988, pp. 78-87)
"David Lindsay - A Voyage to Arcturus" in Horror: The 100 Best Books (Xanadu Books), ed. Stephen Jones & Kim Newman (1988, pp. 108-111)
"A Voyage to Arcturus" in Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (Xanadu/Carroll & Graf) (New York) (1988, pp. 71-72) • on-site review
"The Haunted Woman" in Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (Xanadu/Carroll & Graf) (New York) (1988, pp. 75-76) • on-site review
"From Pan in the Home Counties — to Pain on a Far Planet: E.M. Forster, David Lindsay, and How the Voyage to Arcturus Should End" in Foundation (no. 43, Summer 1988, pp. 25-36) • on-site review
"Arcturan Allegories" in Vector (no. 147, Dec/Jan 1989 1988, pp. 9-11) link
"Introduction" in Sphinx (Xanadu) (London) (1988) • on-site review
"Sphinx" in Aboriginal SF (vol. 3 no. 2, Mar/Apr 1989, pp. 15-16)
"An Introduction to R A Lafferty and East of Laughter" in Quantum Science Fiction & Fantasy Review (Gaithersburg, Maryland) (no. 36, Spring 1990, pp. 10-13) — although this essay is about R A Lafferty, Wolfe contrasts him at length with David Lindsay, and so this piece is a good record of what (positive and negative) Wolfe thought of Lindsay. link
"Introduction" in A Voyage to Arcturus (Canongate) (Edinburgh) (1992, pp. vii-xi)
"Journeys into Fantasy: The Fiction of David Lindsay and C S Lewis" in A Christian for All Christians, ed. Walker, Andrew and Patric, James (Washington) (1992, pp. 98-115)
"Voyage to Arcturus (Canongate)" in Scotland on Sunday (01 Nov 1992, p. 42)
"Encounter Darkness. David Lindsays schwarzer Platonismus" in Inklings: Inklings: Jahrbuch fur Literature und Asthetik, ed. Kranz, Gisbert (Moers) (1993, pp. 49-82)
"Encountering Darkness: The Black Platonism of David Lindsay" in Mythlore (no. 72, Spring 1993, pp. 24-33) link
"Chapters 11: The Vision of Beleaguered Light: David Lindsay (1876-1945), and 12: David Lindsay and the Sublime" in The Great Shadow House: Essays on the Metaphysical Tradition in Scottish Fiction (Polygon) (Edinburgh) (1993, pp. 73-96) • on-site review
"A Plain and Serious Affair" in Cencrastus: the Magazine for Scottish and International Literature, Arts and Affairs (Edinburgh) (no. 45, 1993, pp. 35-38) — review essay on 1992 Canongate reissue of Arcturus
"David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus (1920)" in Scottish Fantasy Literature: A Critical Survey (Canongate) (Edinburgh) (1994, pp. 153-169)
"Shot with Heaven: The Work of David Lindsay" in Scottish Book Collector (Edinburgh) (vol. 4 no. 4, April-May 1994, pp. 12-15)
"David Lindsay" in Modern Fantasy Writers (Chelsea House Publishers) (New York) (1995, pp. xi-xii, 98) — collection of short (1-2 page) extracts on Lindsay: TLS review (from 30 Sep 1920); letter from Lindsay to Visiak; from Colin Wilson's 'Lindsay as novelist and mystic'; from E H Visiak's 'Lindsay as I Knew Him'; from J B Pick's 'The Unpublished Novels'; from Eric S Rabkin's 'Conflation of Genres and Myths in David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus'; from Sellin's Life & Works of David Lindsay; from Bloom, 'Clinamen'; from Douglas A Mackey 'Science Fiction and Gnosticism'. Bloom's introduction to the book (xi-xii) is all about Lindsay.
"The Split Personality and other Gothic Elements in David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus" in Exhibited by Candelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition (Rodopi) (edited by Tinkler-Villani, V, Davidson, P and J Stevenson) (Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA) (1995, pp. 243-254)
"Wilder Shores of Longing" in Abraxas (no. 6, 1996, p. 7) link
"Dreamscapes of Arcturus" in Abraxas (no. 6, 1996, pp. 8-9) — review of David Lindsay's Vision by David Power link
"Living Out the Consequences" in Abraxas (no. 6, 1996, pp. 13-14) link
"In Praise of Devil's Tor" in Abraxas (no. 6, 1996, pp. 12-13) link
"The Haunted Woman. Frauenfiguren im Werk David Lindsays" in Inklings: Inklings: Jahrbuch fur Literature und Asthetik, ed. Kranz, Gisbert (Moers) (1997, pp. 79-93)
"Voyage imaginaire et quête philosophique dans A voyage to Arcturus de David Lindsay" in La littérature fantastique en Grande-Bretagne au tournant du siècle, Université d'Aix-en-Provence, ed. Max Duperray (1997, pp. 113-132)
"David Lindsay and A Voyage to Arcturus" in The Books in My Life by Colin Wilson (Hampton Roads Publishing Company) (1998, pp. 155-166) • on-site review
"David Lindsay" in Book & Magazine Collector (no. 192, Mar 2000, pp. 56-62)
"David Lindsay et The Haunted Woman" in Etudes écossaises (Grenoble) (no. 7, 2001, pp. 75-82) link
"Introduction" in A Voyage to Arcturus (Bison Books) (Lincoln, Neb.) (2002, pp. vii-xv) — reprinted in Pardon This Intrusion (Beccon Publications, 2011)
"The alienness of atmosphere" in The Guardian (31 August 2002) link
"Prism and Pentecost: David Lindsay and the British Apocalypse" in A Voyage to Arcturus (Savoy Books) (Manchester) (2002, pp. xi-xxi) • on-site review
"Afterword" in A Voyage to Arcturus (Savoy Books) (Manchester) (2002, pp. 399-401) • on-site review
"A Voyage to Arcturus" in Vector (no. 231, Oct/Sep 2003, pp. 25-26) link
"Einhundert Lichtjahre in neunzehn Stunden: Das ratselhafte Raumschiff in David Lindsays A Voyage to Arcturus" in Inklings: Jahrbuch fur Literatur und Aesthetik, ed. Kegler, Adelheid, et al (Moers) (2003, pp. 146-163)
"Afterword" in The Haunted Woman (Tartarus Press) (Leyburn) (2004, pp. 201-207)
"David Lindsay: Arcturus & Beyond" in Strange Attractor Journal One (Jun 2005)
"Foundation Favourites: A most peculiar Voyage" in Matrix (British Science Fiction Association) (vol. 180, Aug/Sep 2006, p. 26) link
"Curiosities: Devil's Tor by David Lindsay" in Fantasy & Science Fiction (March 2007) link
"Speculative Metaphysics: The Early Fantasies of David Lindsay" in Wormwood (no. 9, 2007, pp. 16-22)
"A Century of Scottish Creative Writing: Three Essays" in Studies in Scottish Literature (vol. 35 no. 1, 2007, p. 218–257) — overview of Scottish fiction in the 20th century; includes Lindsay on p. 223-224. link
"Resurrecting Alexander Crawford" in Wormwood (no. 11, Autumn 2008, pp. 1-9) — about Lindsay's brother, Alexander
"Neither This, Nor That: The Apophatic Allegory of David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus" in Scottish Studies Review (vol. 9 no. 1, Spring 2008, pp. 101-121)
"Allegory and Cruelty: Gray's Lanark and Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus" in Scotland as Science Fiction, ed. Caroline McCracken-Flesher (Oct 2011, pp. 43-54)
"The Haunted Man" in Around the Outsider: Essays Presented to Colin Wilson on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday (O Books), ed. Colin Stanley (2011, pp. 174-187) — on Colin Wilson's work on David Lindsay
"Sham World, Sublime Light: Gnosticism in the Works of David Lindsay" in The Gnostic (no. 5, June 2011, pp. 160-165) link
"The Other Otherworld: Didactic Fantasy from MacDonald and Lindsay to J Leslie Mitchell" in Scotland as Science Fiction, ed. Caroline McCracken-Flesher (Oct 2011, pp. 29-42)
"David Lindsay's The Violet Apple" in Wormwood (no. 21, Nov 2013, pp. 3-9)
"Earlier Fantasy Fiction: Morris, Dunsany and Lindsay" in A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien (Wiley-Blackwell), ed. Stuart D. Lee (Chichester, West Sussex, and Malden, Massachusetts) (2014, pp. 303-316) — looks at the influence on Tolkien of these three writers
"Late Reviews: The Witch by David Lindsay, The Shadow by E H Visiak, Metamorphosis of the Vampire by Colin Wilson" in Wormwood (no. 25, Autumn 2015, pp. 73-84) — also available in the collected Late Reviews (2018), available from Nodens Books.
"Better Than Soaking - Landscape, Place and the Body in the Work of David Lindsay (or, David Lindsay and the Perils of Walking)" in The Gnostic (Dublin) (no. 6, 2015, pp. 31-42)
"SF Caledonia: David Lindsay" in Shoreline of Infinity (Edinburgh) (no. 3, Spring 2016, pp. 91-94) — followed by an illustration and extract (chapter 6) from A Voyage to Arcturus
"Literary Dependence in the Fiction of C.S. Lewis: Two Case Studies" in Mythlore (vol. 35 no. 1, Fall/Winter, #129; 2016, pp. 97-114) — enumerates 48 points of similarity between A Voyage to Arcturus and Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and The Dark Tower. Also looks at the influence of V A Thisted’s Letters from Hell on Lewis's work. link
"Devil's Tor: A Voyage from Arcturus" in Wormwood (no. 28, Spring 2017, pp. 54-57)
"The Eternal Feminine: David Lindsay's Fixation as Developed in Devil's Tor" in Wormwood (no. 28, Spring 2017, pp. 58-65)
"The Altered States of David Lindsay" in The Psychedelic Press Journal (London) (vol. XX, Mar 2017, pp. 27-41)
"Introduction" in Sphinx (Nodens Books) (Marcellus, MI) (2018)
"David Lindsay 1876-1945" in Ferring History Magazine (Ferring) (2018, pp. 2-3)
""Beating on your heart": Occultism and neo-romanticism in the fiction of David Lindsay" in The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 (Routledge), ed. Christine Ferguson and Andrew Radford (London and New York) (2018, pp. 227-242)
"A Speculative Dictionary of A Voyage to Arcturus" in The Tragic Thread in Science Fiction (Hippocampus Press) (New York) (2019)
"Lindsay's and Goethe's Celebration of the Pagan World" in The Tragic Thread in Science Fiction (Hippocampus Press) (New York) (2019)
"Harold Bloom: Anti-Inkling?" in Jewish Review of Books (no. 37, Spring 2019) — about the influence on Bloom's novel of A Voyage to Arcturus, and C S Lewis's Space Trilogy. link
"Surrealistic Advent in A Voyage To Arcturus" in Roots International Journal of Multidisciplinary Researches (Madurai, India) (vol. 7 no. 1, 2020, pp. 60-64) link
"David Lindsay: The Forging of a Literary Reputation" in Wormwood (no. 36, Spring 2021, p. 56–62)
"Like a challenge? Here's a great one." in The Washington Post (18 Nov 2021, p. C4) link
"David Lindsay and the Shape of Inner Being" in Studies in Scottish Literature (vol. 47 no. 1, Oct 2021, pp. 122-135) link
"Afterword: The Haunted Woman and A Voyage to Arcturus" in The Haunted Woman Annotated Edition (Bookship) (2022, pp. 189-191)
"Introduction" in The Haunted Woman Annotated Edition (Bookship) (2022, pp. 5-8)
"The Haunted Woman in The Daily News" in The Haunted Woman Annotated Edition (Bookship) (2022, pp. 193-198)
"David Lindsay's The Violet Apple" in Mythlore (vol. 41 no. 1, Oct 2022, pp. 31-43) link
"Unknown to the Post Office: Identifying Locations from the Life and Work of David Lindsay" in Reading Colin Wilson: Papers Presented at the Third International Colin Wilson Conference (Paupers' Press) (Nottingham) (2024, pp. 51-108)
Articles & essays (online)
"Дэвид Линдсей - таинственный музыкант (послесловие к =Наваждению=)" in golovin.evrazia.org (2002) — Essay (in Russian) on David Lindsay and The Haunted Woman link
"A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay" in SFSite (2002) link
"David Lindsay" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) link
"How town gave birth to fantasy legend" in Newquay Voice (8 Dec 2004)
"Sacred Mysteries" in The Telegraph (12 Mar 2005) link
"Many Worlds: David Lindsay and alternate realities" in The Bottle Imp (no. 8, Nov 2010) link
""One Long Discomfort": The Legacy and Future of David Lindsay's "A Voyage to Arcturus"" in We Are The Mutants.com (9th May 2018) link
"The Spiritual Borders of Sci-Fi: C S Lewis and A Voyage to Arcturus" in An Unexpected Journal (vol. 3 no. 2, Summer 2020) link
"Returning to the Darkness: Following David Lindsay on A Voyage to Arcturus, 100 Years Later" in Christ and Pop Culture.com (23 Sep 2020) link
"Bernard Sellin and David Lindsay" in Wormwoodiana (24 Nov 2021) link
"A Tale of Two Lindsays: In Search of Starkness Observatory" in Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic Blog (Edinburgh) (19 Nov 2021) — looks into the possible link between Starkness Observatory from A Voyage to Arcturus and the real-life observatory tower created by James Ludovic Lindsay link
Talks & lectures
"Filming the Unfilmable: David Lindsay's Vision", Out of Practice Conference (Birmingham University), 2016again at Edinburgh Napier University Research Students' Conference, 2017
"Dreams, Spirits and Witches in the strange interwar fiction of David Lindsay", The Occult in Popular Fiction and Entertainments (University College Dublin), 25th Nov 2016 link
"A Shadow on the Face of Muspel: Gnostic Traces in the Fiction of David Lindsay (1876-1945)", Religious Studies Seminar (Edinburgh Napier University), 31st Jan 2018
"Facing rebirth: Apocalyptic Themes in the Fiction of David Lindsay", 12th International Conference on Comparative Mythology (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan), 2nd Jun 2018
"A Voyage to Arcturus: A Celebration?", Celebrating the Centenary of David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus (Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic) (University of Glasgow), 2020 link
"Celebrating A Voyage to Arcturus", Celebrating the Centenary of David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus (Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic) (University of Glasgow), 2020
"David Lindsay and the Fantasy Genre", A Voyage to Arcturus and Beyond: David Lindsay's Visionary Imagination (The Scottish Storytelling Centre), 9 Dec 2020
"The Cultural Influence of A Voyage to Arcturus", A Voyage to Arcturus and Beyond: David Lindsay's Visionary Imagination (The Scottish Storytelling Centre), 9 Dec 2020a look at some adaptations of A Voyage to Arcturus
"David Lindsay and 20th Century Visionary Fiction", A Voyage to Arcturus and Beyond: David Lindsay's Visionary Imagination (The Scottish Storytelling Centre), 9 Dec 2020
"The Witch: David Lindsay's Quest of the Absolute", A Voyage to Arcturus and Beyond: David Lindsay's Visionary Imagination (The Scottish Storytelling Centre), 9 Dec 2020
"Representing the Unrepresentable: Reflections on Filming David Lindsay's Sublime", A Voyage to Arcturus and Beyond: David Lindsay's Visionary Imagination (The Scottish Storytelling Centre), 9 Dec 2020included extracts from Martin's film on David Lindsay
"Arcturus and After", A Voyage to Arcturus and Beyond: David Lindsay's Visionary Imagination (The Scottish Storytelling Centre), 9 Dec 2020
"Early Twentieth Century Dream Cultures as context for Arcturus", A Voyage to Arcturus and Beyond: David Lindsay's Visionary Imagination (The Scottish Storytelling Centre), 9 Dec 2020
"John Barclay Pick: Keeper of the Flame", A Voyage to Arcturus and Beyond: David Lindsay's Visionary Imagination (The Scottish Storytelling Centre), 9 Dec 2020on J B Pick's life, and his work relating to David Lindsay
"David Lindsay and Music", A Voyage to Arcturus and Beyond: David Lindsay's Visionary Imagination (The Scottish Storytelling Centre), 9 Dec 2020included extracts from Powers' own Lindsay-related music
"Devil's Tor: Going After Strange Gods", A Voyage to Arcturus and Beyond: David Lindsay's Visionary Imagination (The Scottish Storytelling Centre), 9 Dec 2020
"The Struggle to Remember in The Haunted Woman and The Violet Apple", A Voyage to Arcturus and Beyond: David Lindsay's Visionary Imagination (The Scottish Storytelling Centre), 9 Dec 2020
"Gnostic and Pagan Archetypes in David Lindsay's The Violet Apple, Devi's Tor and The Witch", Dissenting Beliefs: Heresy and Heterodoxy in Fantasy (University of Glasgow), 2021
"Unknown to the Post Office: fallacies in the work of David Lindsay", The Third International Colin Wilson Conference (Nottingham), 1 Sep 2023
Dissertations & theses
"David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus ; allegorical dream fantasy as a literary mode", University of British Columbia (Sep 1972) link
"Fantastic Dream-Quests: George MacDonald's "Phantastes" and David Lindsay's "A Voyage to Arcturus"", University of Oslo (2004)
"'A Far Green Country': An Analysis Of The Presentation Of Nature In Works Of Early Mythopoeic Fantasy Fiction", University of St Andrews (2007) — The chapter on Lindsay, 'David Lindsay: The Nature of the Sublime' is on p. 94-153 link
"A vast shadow house: Critical and creative responses to David Lindsay’s vision", Edinburgh Napier University (2021) link
"David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus: An Anti-Fantasy", Eastern Illinois University (2022) link

 

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