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. Many of these "Wonderful & Supernatural Stories," were translated from German sources. Neither the translators nor original authors/stories are credited, so I’ve tracked down author and translator attributions for the stories included.

Selected Stories of Austin Philips #

Current active case. I'm collecting as many of the Post Office detective and Post Office supernatural short stories of Austin Philips as I can find online. Possibly some non-post office ghost stories, too.

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, tracking down the sources of Vincent Price's readings on two spooky LPs he recorded for Caedmon Records in the 1970s.