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…there were some tales that he conjured up but just couldn’t get out of his head and onto the page. In this site’s tradition of Invisible Libraries, books (or stories)…

…has introduced readers to several Invisible Libraries over the months, books that never existed except as titles in their creator’s imagination. And tonight he thought he would explore the invisible…

…the surrounding universe into its dreadful bookish maws and spits out paper-maché. Sometimes Star Trek came surprising close to horror. Any other sci-fi libraries for the invisible collection? drbeachcombing AT…

Beachcombing has, on previous occasions, enumerated some of his preferred invisible libraries: books or collections of books that never existed save in the imagination of fantasizing authors. And he could…

…Invisible sends in: The New War Game. Even the terrible war which is raging has its humors, and a story apropos of the starved condition of the German soldiers, which…

Invisible books are, as long time readers of this blog will know, books that have never existed save in the imagination. Beach has offered, over the years, many such invisible…

…invisible, and you will know which when the child becomes invisible on shelling: take the bean. Aubrey Adaptation Ball (2015) gives a variant version of this spell, allegedly from Aubrey:…

…the obsolescence that is monarchy in general in these swank times.’ Thanks Tacitus and Andy! Queens on Top: Invisible has several theories: 1) Women rulers, certainly women rulers of the…

…an invisible library post, where imagined but unwritten books are gathered together. First, though a warning. There are three problems with creating such a list. (1) HPL sprinkled credible imagined…

…Society.’ Invisible also puts us onto the annual Fairy and Human Relations Congress. Then just for good measure a fake fairy discovered in Derbyshire. Thanks Invisible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There was an FIB…

…p. 470.) Bottesford Moors. Choice Notes from Notes & Queries, 1859, pp. 51-2. Thanks KR, Invisible and PJ!! Great War Cartoons: Invisible writes in: For First World War cartoons, you…

…are missing, one of the most notable televisual burning libraries of them all. A few score episodes of a mediocre 1960s BBC show went missing. So what? Well, tell that…

…does a good service by making the contents of some very eminent libraries available online. Libraries that many people will never be able to visit. For that alone, Google is…

***This post is dedicated to Invisible who sent the reference and the picture in*** Beachcombing was going to do a post on early parachutes today but he got caught up,…

Beach has frequently pointed to burning libraries, lost books or in this case lost sheaves of papers. First, let’s introduce the author ‘Ariel’ writing in the Blackburn Standard in 1892….