Giving Attribution Where It's Due

This is a blog for my forays into "literary sleuthing," where I try to track down author attributions and original publication sources for unattributed (usually public domain) works.

Sometimes I investigate quotes, and other literary mysteries, too.

My Cases

Evening Tales for the Winter #

Case Complete! Evening Tales for the Winter is an 1856 anthology of gothic and supernatural tales, compiled by Henry St. Clair. I’ve tracked down author and translator attributions for the stories included.

Quote Attributions #

In progress. My attempts to correctly attribute incorrectly or incompletely attributed quotes.

Miscellany and Digressions #

These are literary investigations that pop up while I’m in the middle of another project (often, another investigation). I get curious about things, and I can’t help but dig. Since the results don’t always fit neatly into the other “active case” categories on the site, I keep them here.

Vincent Price and Caedmon Records #

An early case. All the original sources for Vincent Price’s spooky readings on two Caedmon LPs from the 1970s