Wormwoodiana looks at ‘Mazes and Labyrinths’…

There may well still be lost turf maze sites still to be discovered, using detailed place-name evidence or possibly local traditions: I came across one by chance a while ago in a church guide.

… and there’s the potential for newly-created ones, I imagine. One can of course make a temporary ‘summer maze’ of simple mown grass, which may better suit the hand-wringing nay-sayers on the Parish Council. But a more permanent turf-sod maze can’t be too difficult to make once you have a few tons of thick sods delivered to the land. Some drainage pipes too. Since, as Shakespeare pointed out, anything built as channels-in-turf is liable to gather muddy water in our British climate…

The nine-men’s-morris is filled up with mud,
And the quaint mazes in the wanton green,
For lack of tread, are undistinguishable.

The Wormwoodiana article usefully makes me aware of the Caerdroia journal, a long-running scholarly journal dedicated to the topic of mazes and their cultural uses. Possibly a home for your prospective article discussing notable pulp / early-SF mazes, such as the Lovecraft/Sterling story “In the Walls of Eryx”?

The Caerdroia Archive has a range of free public PDFs. Such as “Arthur Machen and the Maze Theme” (1991), which may interest some Tentaclii readers. Also out-of-print 2003-17 back-issues as free .PDFs. I’ve added the indexing URL to JURN and the .PDFs can now be found via my JURN search-engine.