The Irish fantasy writer Rosa Mulholland’s vivid fantasy for children The Walking Trees, now freely available in PDF at last. This is not the later handsome illustrated edition, which I find is utterly available except physically in a few Irish libraries. So my new assemblage from the original magazine serial will have to do for now. You’re welcome.

Also in ‘choice obscurities’, new on Archive.org is The Armchair Detective for July 1972, which considered “A. Merritt’s Mysteries”. Merritt being a Lovecraft fave. On the novel Creep, Shadow! (Argosy, August 1934) the author of the article writes…

The themes of the book — reincarnation, sympathetic magic through shadows, and the re-enactment of an ancient myth of Brittany — are methodically laid out and examined intellectually before the author proceeds to the action. There are flashes of the old poetic imagery, and some of Merritt’s finest writing is in the “shadowland” sequence. This book, which I consider to be one of Merritt’s finest works, is unusual in its pace and plot when compared to his other novels.