Just published, Mark Valentine’s A Wild Tumultory Library is a 350-page collection of a wealth of short essays on the most obscure ‘forgotten’ writers, books, and a few bookshops — with what appears to be a strong British focus. A small sampling of the many titles…

The Palace of Isis: A Note on Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘Mysterious Kor’. [1940s, so not an influence on Tolkien’s Kor]

Pagan Mysteries in the Novels of P.M. Hubbard.

Some Books on Tea Cup Reading.

Modern Ghosts: The Macabre Fiction of L.P. Hartley.

The Ancient Art: The Tales of A.E. Coppard.

‘Great-Nephew to the Queen of Faerie’: A Note on the Grindletonians.

Zodiacs in Britain.

At the Sign of the Black Pterodactyl: George Hay and Books of ‘Some Other Dimension’.