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Site updates
2nd Oct 2024 — Added link to TV Tropes page about A Voyage to Arcturus to the links page.
13th July 2024 — Added some more New Zealand newspaper reviews, of The Haunted Woman, Sphinx, and Devil's Tor to the Secondary Bibliography page, with online links. Also added newspaper photo (with some hand-done enhancements, as the original was very poor) of E H Visiak, to the Visiak biography page.
7th July 2024 — Added 3 New Zealand newspaper reviews of A Voyage to Arcturus to the Secondary Bibliography page, with online links.
8th June 2024 — Updated Family Background article and family tree images with full birthdate of Lindsay's mother.
16th Mar 2024 — Added Warbler Press edition to the Arcturus gallery and editions pages.
5th Mar 2024 — Added the 1970 stage presentation of Arcuturs to the Adaptations and works inspired by A Voyage to Arcturus page.
29th Jan 2024 — Minor updates to the Family Background article: corrected Lindsay's paternal grandfather's birth year, and added a paragraph about where he came from (3rd paragraph on father's family); also minor update to the mother's family tree image, correcting the death date of Lindsay's aunt Mary Ann Bellamy.
1st Jan 2024 — Added an Addenda section to the article on C S Lewis and the Lindsay influence on the Space Trilogy, with a quote from Lewis on a Lindsay influence in The Screwtape Letters.
10th Dec 2023 — Corrected E H Visiak article, as I'd had his birth year at 1879. It's 1878.
10th Oct 2023 — Added a 1965 article (with link) on A Voyage to Arcturus from Transvestia, a magazine for transvestites, to the Secondary Bibliography page.
15th Sep 2023 — Added a paragraph to the E H Visiak biography page about Visiak's time as a teacher.
2nd Sep 2023 — Added image of 2nd issue of the first edition of Devil's Tor to that book's gallery.
27th Aug 2023 — A few minor changes to articles following further research. In the Family Background article: confirmation of the death of one of Lindsay's paternal uncles (Charles William Lindsay), and the possibility the other emigrated to America. In the Robert Barnes article: the injured Henry Barnes previously mentioned as possibly being Robert's father was a different person, so I've removed that mention, and a note that Robert's role at the Sutton and Cheam Art School was part-time.
4th Aug 2023 — Added some articles from The Scotsman to the Secondary Bibliography page.
31st Mar 2023 — Added an article on Malfait Street (the setting of The Violet Apple) to the notes page.
4th Mar 2023 — Added three editions to the A Voyage to Arcturus editions page: a 2018 Serbian translation, a 2022 Portuguese translation (published in Brazil), and Daniel Cardle's 2021 illustrated edition.
25th Feb 2023 — Added Seán Martin's dissertation to the Secondary Bibliography page, with link.
27th Jan 2023 — Added a small change to the article about Alexander Lindsay in the Midlands, as I found a newspaper article about his final hearing. It contained no real details, merely states that the case was concluded, but it at least shows things went no further.
25th Jan 2023 — Added some US (and one Australian) reviews of A Voyage to Arcturus to the Secondary Bibliography page, thanks to Newspapers.com.
21st Jan 2023 — Added a few more snippets of information to the Robert Barnes article: that he was head of painting at Sutton; some other institutions at whose exhibitions he showed paintings; an short extra paragraph on his art career, including his friendship with Graham Sutherland; that he worked for an engineering firm in Bridgnorth; that one of the plays he wrote with Peter Llewelyn Rhodes was called "Etheria"; that he moved to Japan aged 65 and had some success there as a painter.
18th Jan 2023 — Added a handful of reviews for A Blade for Sale to the Secondary Bibliography page, thanks to Newspapers.com.
3rd Jan 2023 — Added French band Neo's track "Joiwind" to the Works inspired by A Voyage to Arcturus page. I've added a few more articles to the Secondary Bibliography page, including a 1963 review in Punch magazine, and a Gene Wolfe essay about R A Lafferty that says a good deal about Lindsay (or Wolfe's view of him, anyway).
26th Nov 2022 — Fixed some broken links on the links page.
7th Aug 2022 — Added 2019 Turkish translation of The Haunted Woman to that book's editions page and gallery page.
30th July 2022 — Added page detailing my Annotated Edition of The Haunted Woman. Also added that to the Haunted Woman editions page and gallery page.
18th July 2022 — Added Positronic Publishing's 2018 hardback and paperback editions of A Voyage to Arcturus to the Arcturus editions and gallery pages.
8th May 2022 — Added Bryan Wysopal's dissertation "David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus: An Anti-Fantasy" to the articles page, with link.
6th Mar 2022 — Added a PDF of the text missing from the Xanada/Carrol and Graf edition of Sphinx to the Sphinx page. Added blurb to the Macmillan Voyage to Arcturus edition page.
23rd Feb 2022 — Added a bit to the Alexander "Crawford" Lindsay biography page with details of his editorship of the Argus Bicycle Club Gazette, plus an image of the magazine's cover.
22nd Feb 2022 — Added some paragraphs near the start of my piece on the Third Programme adaptation of A Voyage to Arcturus, about the differences between the book and the radio-play, as noted in two contemporary reviews from The Listener magazine.
21st Feb 2022 — Updated the J C Trewin page with a couple of quotes from his review of the Third Programme adaptation of Arcturus, and a photo.
18th Feb 2022 — Updated the A Voyage to Arcturus ebook page after another visit to the British Library to check/confirm some final points. (This resulted in only change in the ebook text, once instance of “lakebed” to “lake-bed”.)
16th Feb 2022 — Added Evertype edition of A Voyage to Arcturus to gallery and editions pages.
19th Jan 2022 — Added Greek and (reissued) Romanian translated editions of A Voyage to Arcturus to the editions page.
19th Jan 2022 — Added the Finnish translation of A Voyage to Arcturus to the editions page, and the cover to the gallery page. Added link on the links page to an essay by Joel Fletcher on his painting used as the cover for the Finnish edition.
8th Jan 2022 — A couple of updates to biographical articles thanks to the 1921 Census: what Robert Barnes was doing in 1921, and how early Margaret Lindsay retired.
28th Dec 2021 — Added Lindsay's maternal grandmother's maiden name, plus some added speculation about where she died, and about her husband's profession, to the Family Background article.
27th Dec 2021 — Added links to the Hove in the Past site on the Pembroke Crescent page.
24th Dec 2021 — Updated the Family Background article with the exact date of Lindsay's paternal grandfather's death, and details about where he worked.
5th Dec 2021 — Fixed error on the Timeline page, where daughter Helen's birth was given as March. It's November.
22nd Nov 2021 — Corrected name of Robert Barnes' first son to Jasen on the Robert Barnes biography page. Thanks to Douglas Anderson for this.
20th Nov 2021 — Corrected age of Robert Barnes' first wife when married on the Robert Barnes biography page. Thanks to Douglas Anderson for this.
29th Oct 2021 — Added full name for Robert Barnes' first wife to the Robert Barnes biography page. Added detail about where Margaret Lindsay lived after her brother David's death to the Margaret Lindsay biography page.
28th Oct 2021 — Added more specific birth place for Alexander Lindsay to his biography page, and for Margaret Lindsay to her biography page. Updated the Robert Barnes biography page with the cause of his father's death.
24th Oct 2021 — Added quote from David Keenan to the Who is David Lindsay? page.
9th Oct 2021 — Added purchase/listen links to Original Cast Recording of Phil Moore's A Voyage to Arcturus article to the Works Inspired By... page. Also on that page added the 2015 track A Voyage to Arcturus by Dead Dragon Mountain.
8th Aug 2021 — Fixing/removing some broken links.
20th Jul 2021 — Some behind-the-scenes fixes and changes.
14th Jul 2021 — Added a long essay on the Daily News serialisation of The Haunted Woman, and the illustration that accompanied it to the Haunted Woman gallery page.
12th Jul 2021 — Added Lou Toad's song A Voyage to Arcturus to the Works inspired by... page.
10th Jul 2021 — Added Icelandic translation to the Voyage to Arcturus editions page, and the Arcturus gallery page.
3rd Jul 2021 — The Bookship hardback of A Voyage to Arcturus is available again.
16th Jun 2021 — Corrected some more minor errors in the ebook of A Voyage to Arcturus.
8th Jun 2021 — Corrected some minor errors in the ebook of A Voyage to Arcturus.
6th Jun 2021 — Added the (not yet published) Beehive Books edition to the A Voyage to Arcturus editions page.
3rd Jun 2021 — Added Apple Books link to the Voyage to Arcturus audiobooks page.
1st Jun 2021 — Updated details, and added images, to the Penguin paperback of A Voyage to Arcturus page.
31st May 2021 — Minor update to the E H Visiak biography, to note he definitely did attend Hitchin Grammar School. Thanks to Julie Baugh for this information.
15th May 2021 — Added The Talk Gnosis Podcast to the podcasts section of the links page.
12th May 2021 — A few edits for clarity to the Gollancz reissue series lists page.
8th May 2021 — Added The Chrononauts Podcast to the podcasts section of the links page.
21st Apr 2021 — Added SSL, so this site can now be accessed via the more secure https protocol.
28th Mar 2021 — Changed the way footnotes appear in those pages that use them.
27th Mar 2021 — Expanded the article on the 1956 BBC radio adaptation of A Voyage to Arcturus with more information on the nature of Third Programme, and on the production's major contributors.
23rd Mar 2021 — Added picture of Paul Corfield Godfrey's 1983 opera to the Works based on A Voyage to Arcturus page.
22nd Feb 2021 — Added 2007 edition of A Voyage to Arcturus from The Press at Toad Hall. Thanks to E S Anderson for providing this information.
21st Feb 2021 — Added "back to top" link at bottom of pages for mobile users. Added brother's death to the timeline page. Added extract of the first chapter of The Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly, in addition to the existing page-scans.
10th Feb 2021 — Added jacket flap blurb to first edition of Devil's Tor page.
26th Jan 2021 — Added a preview of the Bookship A Voyage to Arcturus hardback interior, as Lulu are no longer offering a preview on their site. Added a nice retro-style cover from an unidentified publisher to the Arcturus gallery page (end of Other Editions section).
16th Jan 2021 — Added link to the Gutenberg Canada text of The Haunted Woman to the links page.
5th Jan 2021 — Added some more Rafi Metz illustrations to the Arcturus gallery page.
2nd Jan 2021 — Added a Rafi Metz illustration and the cover to the Spoken Realms audiobook to the A Voyage to Arcturus gallery page.
27th Dec 2020 — Added Rafi Metz's illustrated audiobook of Arcturus to the works inspired by... page.
21st Dec 2020 — Tidied up the links page, dividing it into more sections, and adding some links, including ones from previous news items.
5th Dec 2020 — Added Dennis Rea Tanabata Ensemble album to the Arcturus Works inspired by page.
22nd Nov 2020 — Added Nina Allan quotes to the Introduction and What's it all about? pages.
19th Nov 2020 — Added link to Nicolas Geffroy's illustrations for A Voyage to Arcturus to the links page.
11th Nov 2020 — Updated the Scottish Storytelling Centre Lindsay event with a new flyer & programme of events.
14th Oct 2020 — A couple of additions to the Magic Flute article: a caption pointing out the resemblance between Sir Thomas Beecham and Backhouse the Medium, and a Thomas Burke quote provided by Seán Martin. Also, some more information added to the end of the Robert Barnes article, along with an image of a Barnes painting (thanks to Tim Rhodes for providing the new information and the image).
18th Sep 2020 — Added a couple of musical pieces to the Voyage to Arcturus Works Inspired By page, one from the 1990s, one from 2020.
4th Sep 2020 — Corrected a misattribution on the A Voyage to Arcturus gallery page: Tim Gaydos not Bob Pepper.
23rd Aug 2020 — Added Talks & lectures section to the Secondary Bibliography page.
22nd Aug 2020 — Added upcoming Penguin edition to the Voyage to Arcturus editions and gallery pages. Also added the Bookship Four Novels anthology to the relevant gallery pages, and to the buying page.
13th Aug 2020 — Slightly expanded the Biography of E H Visiak on the Notes & Essays pages thanks to a re-read of Life's Morning Hour, and added a Visiak bibliography.
29th Jul 2020 — Regularised appearance of bibliographies in Notes & Essays pages.
25th Jul 2020 — A few minor edits to the Magic Flute essay.
20th Jul 2020 — Added a long essay on Mozart's The Magic Flute (the Drury Lane performances of which David Lindsay mentions in A Voyage to Arcturus) and how it might have influenced Lindsay's novel, to the Notes section. Also added The Gateless Gate's 2020 "A Voyage to Arcturus" track to the Works inspired by A Voyage to Arcturus page.
12th Jun 2020 — Added review of John C Wright's Lament of Prometheus to the Notes page, and added it to the Selected Bibliography page. Added Bandcamp links to Steve Mackay and the Radon Ensemble's 2006 track "A Voyage to Arcturus", and Tyrone Steele's 2017 track subtitled "A Voyage to Arcturus" to the Works inspired by A Voyage to Arcturus page.
11th May 2020 — Added information about the amount Margaret Lindsay was left in her aunt's will to Margaret's biography page.
30th Apr 2020 — Added a clarification about why Visiak left the Indo-European Telegraph Company, to the E H Visiak biography page. Thanks to David Power for this information.
27th Apr 2020 — Added paragraph about E H Visiak's conscientious objection during WWI to the E H Visiak biography page.
3rd Apr 2020 — Added external link to Bernard Sellin's French essay "David Lindsay et The Haunted Woman" to the Secondary Bibliography page.
11th Feb 2020 — Slight update to the Robert Barnes biography, with a correction to his death date, and the names of his two sons. Updated the Adaptations and works inspired by A Voyage to Arcturus with Rafi Metz's 2010 Arcturian Suite.
8th Jan 2020 — Expanded the article on Alexander "Crawford" Lindsay into a more detailed biography. Some layout-tidying to the longer articles.
5th Jan 2020 — Added articles on Lindsay's sister Margaret, and his literary agent Ronald Massey.
1st Jan 2020 — I've uploaded the PDF of Alexander Crawford's The Alias to Archive.org, so links (my review of the novel, and my page about Alexander Crawford) now point there.
24th Dec 2019 — Expanded the E H Visiak article with a more detailed biography.
20th Dec 2019 — Added mother's place of birth to the article on Jacqueline Silver. Removed some dead links.
13th Dec 2019 — Added an article on David Lindsay's painter friend Robert Barnes.
11th Dec 2019 — Updated the family trees on the Family Background essay, and added Kathleen to the Joyce children.
7th Dec 2019 — A few more changes to the Family Background essay, after some more research: a boy, Robert, born to David's father's parents who seems not to have survived infancy; some details of Henry Edward Joyce's working & public life; and marriage details for David's cousin Edith.
4th Dec 2019 — Corrected John Kennedy's birth year on the Family Background essay.
2nd Dec 2019 — Added some more about Lindsay's involvement with chess to the David Lindsay's Chess Game article.
24th Nov 2019 — Gave the Voyage to Arcturus adaptations & works inspired by section its own page. Added Phil Moore's musical to it, and the musical's poster to the gallery page.
23rd Nov 2019 — Added two Paul Lloyd Warner compositions (from 1985 and 2017) to the Adaptations & works inspired by section of the Voyage to Arcturus page. Plus general tidy up of that section. Added new Resonance BookWorks edition of A Voyage to Arcturus, and cover to the gallery page.
22nd Nov 2019 — Another small update to the article on Jacqueline Silver, as I now have her mother's US immigration record.
21st Nov 2019 — Added Robert H Waugh's Tragic Thread in Science Fiction to the Selected Bibliography, along with a few general polishes to that page.
20th Nov 2019 — Some additions to the Secondary Bibliography page.
17th Nov 2019 — Some small changes to the article on Jacqueline Silver, including the surviving brothers marriages, and more confusion about Jacqueline's father's name.
14th Nov 2019 — Added an article on Jacqueline Silver to the Notes section. Minor edits to the David Lindsay's Family Background article, for clarity, and to add the name of the printing firm David's uncles belonged to.
18th Sep 2019 — Added details of new Russian edition of A Voyage to Arcturus to the editions and gallery pages. Thanks to Konstantin for this information.
6th Aug 2019 — Updated the ebook of A Voyage to Arcturus, correcting one error.
1st Aug 2019 — Updated the site index page.
3rd Jul 2019 — Added a downloadable ebook of A Voyage to Arcturus, not based on the Gutenberg.org text. Full details are the A Voyage to Arcturus ebook page.
2nd Jul 2019 — Added an essay on George MacDonald's influence on David Lindsay to the Notes & Essays page. Updated the Influences page to point to it.
21st Jun 2019 — Added a link to A Voyage to Arcturus at the Open Syllabus Explorer to the links page.
8th Jun 2019 — Added some images and minor details to first edition pages for Devil's Tor and A Voyage to Arcturus.
29th May 2019 — On the Secondary Bibliography page: by the review of A Voyage to Arcturus by William Atheling Jr, noted that this is a pseudonym for James Blish.
24th May 2019 — Correcting some errors and adding some information (thanks to Konstantin for all of these): typo in the summary of The Witch page, wrong date of publication of E H Visiak's Medusa and date of L H Myers's death on the timeline page, corrected name of 2004 Russian edition of Arcturus and added cover artist name, corrected title of Science Fiction Special 33 on that book's edition page, added Black Horse Books HB of Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly and PB of The Haunted Woman, plus an essay (in Russian) on The Haunted Woman added to the secondary bibliography.
11th May 2019 — Spruced up the Notes & Essays section.
7th May 2019 — Added an article on the influence of Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus on C S Lewis's Space Trilogy, to the notes section (which is now renamed Notes & Essays).
30th Mar 2019 — Fixed broken link in review of Harold Bloom's Flight to Lucifer.
18th Feb 2019 — Added Bookship's PB of Sphinx to this list of Sphinx editions.
18th Feb 2019 — Added cover image for Bookship's updated version of Sphinx for Kindle to the Sphinx page gallery, and that edition's page.
12th Feb 2019 — Updated the details page for the Vasilievsky Island edition of A Voyage to Arcturus with the proper title of the Chad Oliver story that's also in that anthology, plus an image of an interior illustration. (Also added this to the Arcturus gallery page.) Thanks to Konstantin for both.
27th Jan 2019 — Updated the site index, as I hadn't added some recent new pages to it.
24th Jan 2019 — Added Bookship paperback of The Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly to that book's list of editions.
18th Jan 2019 — Added 1932 Worthing Herald review of Devil's Tor to the secondary bibliography page.
26th Dec 2018 — Updated a couple of minor details on the David Lindsay's Family Background article: Henry Edward Joyce's year of death; and a confirmation of year of bankruptcy of Elizabeth Bellamy (David's grandmother).
24th Dec 2018 — Added an article on Alexander Lindsay's time in the Midlands to the Notes section.
20th Dec 2018 — Added an article on theatre critic J C Trewin to the Notes section, including some of his references to A Voyage to Arcturus in his theatre reviews.
8th Sep 2018 — Added a couple of bigger cover images to the Japanese Sanrio editions of A Voyage to Arcturus and The Haunted Woman, and the Bulgarian Voyage to Arcturus. Also added the text of the cover blurb to the first edition of A Voyage to Arcturus to that edition's page.
2nd Aug 2018 — Added links to buy the digital version of Vakula's A Voyage to Arcturus album, which will be released on the 24th August.
1st Jul 2018 — Added a link to the links page to an interview with Robert Silverberg, where he says his 1971 novel Son of Man was inspired by A Voyage to Arcturus. Removed some long-broken links.
25th Jun 2018 — Added Bookship paperback of Devil's Tor to that book's list of editions.
18th Jun 2018 — Clarified the North Books editions of A Voyage to Arcturus as being two editions, one large print, one normal print. Both are now on the Arcturus editions page. Added cover image to the Arcturus gallery page.
17th Jun 2018 — Added a site privacy policy.
14th Jun 2018 — Added family tree diagrams to the David Lindsay's Family Background article.
5th Jun 2018 — Added Nodens Books Kindle and paperback editions of Sphinx to that book's page, and the introduction to the secondary bibliography.
13th May 2018 — Added We Are The Mutants.com article on Arcturus to the secondary bibliography page.
30th Apr 2018 — Two small edits to the secondary bibliography page: added full title of Delta magazine to the 1963 article that appeared there, and a link to Nodens Books, where Douglas A. Anderson's Late Reviews review of The Witch has been republished.
12th Apr 2018 — Added specific months for daughters' births and mother's death to the timeline.
30th Mar 2018 — Added article on a chess game Lindsay hand published in the Kentish Mercury in 1899.
10th Feb 2018 — Listed 14 more reviews on the secondary bibliography page, thanks to the Vector index, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Index.
9th Feb 2018 — Added listings of two reviews of The Violet Apple to secondary bibliography page. Thanks to Sean Martin for the Foundation one.
2nd Feb 2018 — Added The Occult Imagination in Britain chapter to the secondary bibliography page.
28th Dec 2017 — Updated and simplified some links on the buying page.
21st Nov 2017 — Added Douglas A. Anderson's blog to the links page.
11th Nov 2017 — Added A Voyage to Arcturus album by Santiago Niño to the adaptations & works inspired by section.
31st Oct 2017 — Changed the end of the Sphinx summary page, to correct an error. (Thanks to Kevin Busby for pointing this out.)
17th Oct 2017 — I've added a site index page.
11th Oct 2017 — I've added an article to the notes section of the site on David Lindsay's Family Background, following some research I've done recently. Minor changes to the biography page, too.
4th Oct 2017 — Added H E Bates review of Devil's Tor to the secondary bibliography, along with a link to the review, thanks to the H E Bates Companion. Also, thanks to the review, I have added the name of the artist of the cover of the first edition of Devil's Tor, to that book's page, and the individual edition page. Also added L A G Strong's review of Devil's Tor, with online link.
29th Sep 2017 — Added another contemporary review for A Voyage to Arcturus to the secondary bibliography page, this time from the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer.
27th Sep 2017 — On the timeline page, changed the 1946 radio programme details. It was the Light Programme, not the Third Programme, according to the BBC Genome project.
26th Sep 2017 — Added the specific year for the disappearance of Lindsay's father to the biography and timeline pages.
26th Sep 2017 — Added some more (mostly anonymous) contemporary reviews for Lindsay's novels to the secondary bibliography page, thanks to a trawl through the British Newspaper Archive.
19th Sep 2017 — Added new Kindle edition of The Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly to that book's page.
10th Jul 2017 — Added a link to Gary K Wolfe's official website, to the links page, and added three reviews by Wolfe of Lindsay-related books to the secondary bibliography.
5th Jul 2017 — I have added a scanned PDF of Alexander Crawford's novel The Alias, available from links at the bottom of the Alexander Crawford and The Alias review pages.
28th Jun 2017 — Added the Circle/Temple track to the list of works inspired by A Voyage to Arcturus.
25th Jun 2017 — Added links to the Standard Ebooks version of A Voyage to Arcturus to the links and buying pages. Added Mothlite's 2012 song Dreamsinter Nightspore to the list of adaptations and works inspired by A Voyage to Arcturus.
23rd Jun 2017 — Added new ebook edition of Devil's Tor to that book's editions and gallery, and linked to it on the buying page.
22nd Jun 2017 — The Timeline page now adjusts to smaller screen sizes.
5th Jun 2017 — Added the Area 42 Podcast to the links page.
2nd Jun 2017 — Fixed some internal broken links.
8th May 2017 — Added two articles about Devil's Tor to the secondary bibliography page.
13th Mar 2017 — Added more images to the various plot summary pages. Added A Blade for Sale dustjacket image to that book's gallery.
10th Mar 2017 — Added ebook version of Sphinx to the Sphinx page, and the buying page.
4th Mar 2017 — Added The Psychedelic Press Journal article on Lindsay to the bibliography page.
16th Jan 2017 — Added link to an edition of the B&HCR programme, Your Voice Matters, about David Lindsay, to the links page.
7th Jan 2017 — Added link to the LibriVox reading of The Haunted Woman to that book's page, and the links page.
10th Dec 2016 — Removing and fixing some broken links.
3rd Dec 2016 — Increased size of main logo, made some formatting adjustments for pad-sized viewing.
3rd Nov 2016 — Added new Spanish edition to the A Voyage to Arcturus editions page.
23rd Sep 2016 — Added link to David Lindsay's works available at Scribd.com to the buying page.
15th Sep 2016 — Added E W Harris's song ReEntry to list of works inspired by A Voyage to Arcturus.
6th Sep 2016 — Added link to the series in which Ithaki Publishing's Turkish translation of A Voyage to Arcturus is part, to that book's edition page.
3rd Sep 2016 — Added details of forthcoming Turkish translation of A Voyage to Arcturus, and added cover to gallery page.
18th Jun 2016 — Added some articles to the secondary bibliography page, thanks to Steven Sutcliffe.
15th Jun 2016 — Added additional cover images to the Argentinian edition of A Voyage to Arcturus, the 1980 Japanese edition, and 2014 Japanese edition (as proof this edition is really as ugly as it looks!).
14th Jun 2016 — Added mention of audiobooks to the buying page.
28th May 2016 — Added details of Romanian edition of A Voyage to Arcturus.
26th May 2016 — Updated link to new Pauper's Press website.
14th May 2016 — Added mention of Tartarus Press's ebook of their edition of The Haunted Woman to the buying page.
24th Jan 2016 — Added link to online text of A Voyage to Arcturus at Wikisource, to the links page, works online section.
19th Jan 2016 — Updated links to the Brighton & Hove Community Radio adaptation of The Haunted Woman.
12th Jan 2016 — Added a link to the Wormwood blog about Hugh Deane's A Voyage to Arcturus illustration to my page about it. Added mention of Joel Fletcher's painting "Over the Mountains of Ifdawn" to the works inspired by A Voyage to Arcturus section.
11th Jan 2016 — Updated the buying page to note that the Chicago Review Press omnibus of The Violet Apple & The Witch has some textual errors in the Violet Apple portion.
2nd Jan 2016 — Added a link to page with more information on the 1982 Rod Wallace record to the A Voyage to Arcturus 'works inspired by' section.
28th Dec 2015 — Uploaded a transcription of Victor Gollancz's Publisher's Note to the 1946 reissue of A Voyage to Arcturus. Added a graphic of the cover design to the first edition of The Haunted Woman to the bottom of that book's page. Added the 2014 editions of A Voyage to Arcturus and The Haunted Woman from Ulwencreutz Media to the editions database.
27th Dec 2015 — A minor change externally - all the old editions pages, detailing individual editions of Lindsay's works, are now in a database, so old pages should be redirected to a new page, which nevertheless looks the same! But it does mean you can see all editions of all works on one page.
13th Dec 2015 — Added a number of reviews from Australian newspapers to the Secondary Bibliography page, with links (thanks to the National Library of Australia's Trove site).
17th Nov 2015 — Added two new Japanese editions, of A Voyage to Arcturus (2014), and The Haunted Woman (2013). Also some new images of the 1980 Japanese edition of A Voyage to Arcturus, and the 1993 Russian edition.
4th Nov 2015 — Added link to the SFFAudio Podcast about A Voyage to Arcturus to the links page articles section.
12th Oct 2015 — Added 2012 edition of A Voyage to Arcturus, published by Englighten in India, to the Arcturus editions page.
1st Oct 2015 — Checked external links and removed long-term broken ones. Added link to David Power's new site, to the links page.
23rd Aug 2015 — Added scan of the title page to a third edition of Sphinx, to that book's edition page, thanks to Bob Knowlton. Added some open-access dissertations to the secondary bibliography page.
8th Aug 2015 — Added details of a Canadian edition of A Voyage to Arcturus, from the 1920s, thanks to Bob Knowlton. Added link to Facsimile Dust Jackets' David Lindsay page, to the buying page's miscellanous links. Also added information about Paul Corfield Godfrey's 1983 opera of Arcturus, to that book's adaptations section.
7th Jul 2015 — Added link to an article about Matt Kish, in which he says he wants to illustrate A Voyage to Arcturus, and to a Folklore Map of Sussex and the South Downs, that includes Lindsay's final home, both to the links page. Thanks to Swan for these.
5th Jul 2015 — Added a note on Ian Watson's essay in Foundation #43, to the selected secondary bibliography page. Added links from the secondary bibliography page to reviews/summaries of the relevant articles/essays elsewhere on the site.
28th Jun 2015 — Added a database listing articles, books and reviews related to Lindsay and his work. Added a link to a blog post on Ian Watson's site about Arcturus, to the links page.
24th Jun 2015 — Checked for broken/blocked links.
24th May 2015 — Added a review of Alexander Crawford's novel The Alias to the notes section. Added a link to a page about the band Swaylone to the links page. Reinstated link to Resonance BookWorks to the buying page. Added mention of Chris Zippel's 2012 track, Voyage to Arcturus to the Arcturus adaptations & works inspired by... list.
21st Apr 2015 — Fixed an error with external links in the news RSS feed.
14th Apr 2015 — The site should look better on mobile phones and other small-screen devices.
3rd Mar 2015 — Updated the notes page on J B Pick, to include his death date, and add links to two obituaries.
23rd Feb 2015 — Added David Power's Matterplay to the Adaptations & works inspired by A Voyage to Arcturus section, and updated his website address to point to his Soundcloud page.
14th Feb 2015 — Added a page about Vakula's A Voyage to Arcturus album. Added second Vakula image to the Voyage to Arcturus gallery page. Added Akashic Fish's album A Voyage To Arcturus/Out of the Silent Planet (via the Northside) to the Arcturus adaptations & works inspired by... list.
19th Jan 2015 — Added a link to Two Ruins's art-piece on vimeo to the Adaptations & works inspired by Voyage to Arcturus list. Included links to the BBC Genome Project relevant to the Third Programme adaptation of A Voyage to Arcturus. Fixed some broken links.
20th Oct 2014 — Added Vakula's album, A Voyage to Arcturus, to the Arcturus Adaptations & works inspired by... section, and the album cover to the gallery page.
5th Oct 2014 — Added books by Sean Martin and Gary Lachman to the Secondary Bibliography page.
20th Jul 2014 — Added Andrulian's Voyage to Arcturus: The Live Album to the list of works inspired by A Voyage to Arcturus.
8th Jun 2014 — Added a quote from Charles Beauclerk's recent biography of John Ogdon about Ogdon's unfinished operatic adaptation of A Voyage to Arcturus, and corrected a link, both on the Ogdon page.
23rd Apr 2014 — Added this site's RSS link to the news and links pages. Checked links page links, removed or corrected broken links.
27th Oct 2013 — The buying page now contains some information on the basic differences between editions of David Lindsay's books.
12th Oct 2013 — Added a few links to the Miscellenous section of the Links page, of Lindsay-related music, paintings and illustrations on the internet. Plus, updated some broken links.
9th Jun 2013 — Uploaded a larger cover image of the 1980 Japanese translation of A Voyage to Arcturus, to that book's edition page. Also, two images of the 1981 Japanese edition of The Haunted Woman. Plus, a larger cover scan of the Bulgarian edition of A Voyage to Arcturus, as well as identification of the artist as Luis Royo.
8th Jun 2013 — Added full-dustjacket scan and blurb text for the Gollancz 1963 edition of A Voyage to Arcturus. Added cover scan & photos of Sidgwick & Jackson's Science Fiction Special 33, which contains The Violet Apple, to that book's edition page. Also updated the link to Fred Turner's website on the same page.
24th Mar 2013 — Added the 2011 Oxford City Press edition to The Haunted Woman editions page.
23rd Jan 2013 — Updated timeline with David Lindsay's school dates. Added to the links page: link to Lindsay's old school, where he is listed as an "Old Colfeian"; links to images of Mike & Carol Resnick dressed as Haunte and Sullenbode at the Worldcon in 1976. Removed broken links.
13th Dec 2012 — Added The Romance of Golden Star... missed off the list of titles in Arno Press's Lost Race and Adult Fantasy Fiction series. Thanks to Robert Scott Martin for the information.
9th Sep 2012 — Added ISBN for Viatge a Arcturus to that book's editions page.
8th Sep 2012 — Added details of the Catalan translation of Arcturus to that book's editions page.
15th Jul 2012 — Added link to a new blog about William Hope Hodgson to the links page.
10th Jul 2012 — Removed link to Resonance BookWorks from the buying page, as they no longer seem to be selling Lindsay's books.
29th May 2012 — Added details of two records featuring tracks called Voyage to Arcturus to the Arcturus "Adaptations & works inspired by" section.
19th Feb 2012 — 11th (final) instalment of The Brighton & Hove Community Radio serialisation of The Haunted Woman, linked to on that book's page.
11th Feb 2012 — 10th instalment of The Brighton & Hove Community Radio serialisation of The Haunted Woman, linked to on that book's page.
3rd Feb 2012 — 9th instalment of The Brighton & Hove Community Radio serialisation of The Haunted Woman, linked to on that book's page.
27th Jan 2012 — 8th instalment of The Brighton & Hove Community Radio serialisation of The Haunted Woman, linked to on that book's page.
23rd Jan 2012 — Removed broken links from the buying & links pages.
20th Jan 2012 — 7th instalment of The Brighton & Hove Community Radio serialisation of The Haunted Woman, linked to on that book's page.
14th Jan 2012 — 6th instalment of The Brighton & Hove Community Radio serialisation of The Haunted Woman, linked to on that book's page.
7th Jan 2012 — Added link to the the 5th instalment of The Brighton & Hove Community Radio serialisation of The Haunted Woman to that book's page. Also added details about the contents of the issue of Adam International Review which published some of David Lindsay's letters, plus a cover scan, at the Non-fiction page.
2nd Jan 2012 — Added links to The Brighton & Hove Community Radio serialisation of The Haunted Woman to that book's page.
5th Nov 2011 — Thanks to Roy Sinclair, added an illustration for A Voyage to Arcturus by Hugh Deane, from the 1920s/30s — linked to from the Arcturus page's Adaptations & works inspired section.
15th Oct 2011 — Added link to David Lindsay's entry at the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction to the links page.
8th Oct 2011 — Added cover scan of Lines Review #40, plus a few details about it to the Non-fiction page.
4 Jun 2011 — Added link to an LA Times review of the 1985 stage adaptation of Arcturus to the Arcturus page. Updated link to the rememberance of E J King-Bull on the Third Programme Adaptation page, and the link to Steve Mackay and the Radon Ensemble's Tunnel Diner album.
2 Jun 2011 — Added link to the new LibriVox audiobook of A Voyage to Arcturus to the links and Arcturus pages. Removed and updated a couple of broken links.
17 Apr 2011 — Fleshed out the entry on David Power's book, David Lindsay's Vision in the Secondary Bibliography page.
9 Apr 2011 — Corrected publication month, ISBN and page count for Del Rey edition of A Voyage to Arcturus.
26 Nov 2010 — Minor corrections & additions to the Timeline (A Voyage to Arcturus publication month was wrong). Added a scan of an ad for Devil's Tor from The Times Literary Supplement, April 1932, to the Devil's Tor page.
7 Nov 2010 — Added link to a the Bottle Imp article about David Lindsay to the links page.
31 Oct 2010 — Added cover to the Resonance Bookworks edition of The Haunted Woman to that book's gallery page.
25 Oct 2010 — Added a link to links page to a blog where you can download a self-titled album from artist Maskull, from 1997.
19 Sep 2010 — Thanks to Paul Troon, two photos of Lindsay's house in Pembroke Crescent (as it is now).
12 Sep 2010 — Added a link to a Flickr image of an earring trio inspired by A Voyage to Arcturus to the links page.
5 Sep 2010 — New edition page for the Bulgarian edition of A Voyage to Arcturus.
4 Sep 2010 — Thanks to Leonid for pointing out the error on the Voyage to Arcturus gallery page — what I thought was a Russian edition is in fact Bulgarian.
30 Aug 2010 — Cover scans for the following editions, all thanks to Lawrence Cassidy: Devil's Tor (Arno Press, 1978), The Haunted Woman (Borgo Press, 1980), The Violet Apple & The Witch (Chicago Review Press HB, 1976). Updated the links page to get rid of links that are no longer there, and update those that have changed.
26 Aug 2010 — Added a cover scan of The Alias to the Alexander Crawford page.
2 Aug 2010 — Added a postcard image of Sea Lane, Ferring, to the biography page, and two postcards (of Worthing promenade and Brighton West Pier) images to The Haunted Woman summary page.
3 May 2010 — Added a page to the Notes section about Colin Wilson's writings on David Lindsay.
2 May 2010 — Added cover picture for first edition of The Haunted Woman, on that book's edition page; also an image for the Gollancz 1947's edition page. Improved image for the 1977 Del Rey paperback of A Voyage to Arcturus on that book's edition page; also added a link to a small scan of the Richard Powers frontispiece to the Gregg Press edition of A Voyage to Arcturus, on that book's edition page. Changed the link for buying David Power's David Lindsay's Vision, (as it is no longer available at the old address, and is now available via Amazon.com) on the secondary bibliography page.
20 Feb 2010 — Updated cover scan and details for the French 1975 Denoel edition of A Voyage to Arcturus.
17 Feb 2010 — Added entry for David Kanaga's Scenes from Arcturus to the Adaptations & works inspired by A Voyage to Arcturus section.
21 Oct 2009 — The UK release of A Voyage to Arcturus by Ballantine now has two pages for the two editions on the Arcturus editions page, one in 1972 (as Ballantine), one in 1974 (as Pan/Ballantine), as they have two different ISBNs. I have also added an entry on J B Pick's essay in Studies in Scottish Literature, Jan 1964, to the Secondary Bibliography page
11 Oct 2009 — Added cover scans of two new Voyage to Arcturus editions to the gallery page. One published via Amazon's POD CreateSpace (see its edition page), and one of several Kindle editions of Arcturus, notable for its unusual subtitle "Maskull on Tormance". (Arcturus was originally titled "Nightspore on Tormance").
12 Sep 2009 — Added page for ResonanceBookworks edition of Sphinx, and better cover scans for ResonanceBookworks editions of M de Mailly, and Devil's Tor.
11 June 2009 — Added a page on Robert Lynd to the Notes section.
13 May 2009 — Added links to two essays to the Links page.
12 May 2009 — Updated links to the Pauper's Press website's new location.
24 Mar 2009 — Added mention of David Power's composition Bluewright to the Witch page, in the "works inspired by" section. Added a link to an image of Stanley Kurt Lester's painting "Who is Surtur" which is up at flickr.com, to the links page.
23 Mar 2009 — Added links to Rafi Metz's reading of A Voyage to Arcturus to the links and Arcturus pages. Added a cover scan of the Gollancz 1946 edition of Arcturus, and a second image to the Gollancz 1963 edition. Added a graphic of David Lindsay's signature (taken from his army pension records) to the main page. Added a link to the Bison Press edition of Arcturus, to be found on Google Books, to the links page.
21 Feb 2009 — Added Dodo Press (2008) and Tutis (2008) editions to the Arcturus editions pages.
18 Feb 2009 — Added details of the Resonance BookWorks edition of Monsieur de Mailly.
31 Jan 2009 — Added a picture of the Putnam's Devil's Tor dustjacket, and information about the Resonance BookWorks editions of Devil's Tor and Arcturus.
6 Jan 2009 — The page on the Third Programme adaptation of Arcturus has been completely rewritten and expanded, now including a complete cast list, and a contemporaneous article by E H Visiak from the Radio Times on a separate page. Uploaded a new, larger, cover scan of The Violet Apple & The Witch.
24 Dec 2008 — Added a link, in the Miscellaneous section of the links page, to a set of images on flickr inspired by A Voyage to Arcturus.
28 Nov 2008 — Moved one of the alternate covers for the Ballantine edition of Arcturus to the Del Rey edition page. Uploaded a better full-size scan for the remaining alternate Ballantine edition.
22 Nov 2008 — Uploaded a full wraparound cover scan of the "Evening Star" Canongate cover for Arcturus.
19 Nov 2008 — Added Catice to the Arcturus names page, after the term came up on a Steve Wright's Afternoon Show factoid.
2 Nov 2008 — Added a note to the end of the Alexander Crawford page about the recent publication of Douglas A Anderson's article on Crawford in Wormwood #11. Added David Lindsay's mother's death to the timeline.
7 Oct 2008 — Added a full wraparound cover scan for the Gollancz 2008 edition of A Voyage to Arcturus, and another variant cover for the Ballantine edition.
19 Sep 2008 — The Witch publication details updated to link to a separate page for each edition. Added a link to an interview with Douglas A Anderson about Tales Before Tolkien to the Christmas Play page. Corrected link to the article on the George MacDonald Society website on the links page.
11 Sep 2008 — Technical update of all pages to hopefully make them load quicker.
31 Aug 2008 — Added an opinion piece, to the Notes section, asking "Is David Lindsay a Bad Writer?".
22 Aug 2008 — Added a link to the LibraryThing David Lindsay page to the links page.
31 Jul 2008 — The Devil's Tor page now links to a separate page for each edition of the book. I have also added a page to the notes section listing the books published as part of Arno Press's Lost Race and Adult Fantasy Fiction series, in which Devil's Tor was reprinted.
27 Jul 2008 — Added a variant cover image to the page for the Ballantine edition of Arcturus.
6 Jul 2008 — Added a variant cover image to the page for the Canongate edition of The Haunted Woman.
4 Jul 2008 — Created a page listing the books included in Sidgwick & Jackson's Science Fiction Special series, which included The Violet Apple in volume #33.
18 Jun 2008 — Completely rewrote (and expanded) the biography page, and made minor changes to the birthdate & place and Alexander Crawford pages after some research nailing down a few dates. Some changes made to the timeline page, too.
8 Jun 2008 — Expanded the Violet Apple editions section so there is a separate page for every edition. Plus, updated and weeded out dead links from the links page.
3 Jun 2008 — Added a review of Harold Bloom's Arcturus-influenced novel, The Flight to Lucifer to the notes page.
24 May 2008 — Added information of John Ogdon's unfinished opera based on A Voyage to Arcturus to the Arcturus adaptations section.
14 May 2008 — Added a link to an article in the Newquay Voice about David Lindsay, on the links page, Articles, essays & talks section. Sphinx editions have now been given separate pages.
12 May 2008 — The Haunted Woman editions page has also now had a tidy-up, overhall and details check. Now, every edition of The Haunted Woman should have its own page with as much information as I have on it displayed there.
8 May 2008 — The Voyage to Arcturus editions page has had a tidy-up, overhall and details check. Now, every edition of Arcturus should have its own page with as much information as I have on it displayed there. I have also added the cover of the Waking Lion Press edition of Arcturus to the gallery page.
7 May 2008 — Added cover scan of Gollancz 1978 edition of A Voyage to Arcturus to the gallery page.
6 Apr 2008 — Added Tunnel diner, an album by Steve Mackay and the Radon Ensemble to the Voyage to Arcturus index page, as it contains a track called "Voyage to Arcturus".
28 Mar 2008 — Added details of Tutis Digital Publishing's large print edition of A Voyage to Arcturus to the editions page, and cover scan to the gallery page.
20 Mar 2008 — Added details of a Russian edition of The Haunted Woman, with cover, to the Haunted Woman editions and gallery pages. Also details of two Russian editions (from 1993 & 2004) of A Voyage to Arcturus, on the Arcturus editions and gallery pages. Changed site pages to UTF-8 character set encoding to keep up with all this Cyrillic.
22 Feb 2008 — Added link to information about Bob Pepper, the artist of the Ballantine Voyage to Arcturus cover, from the editions page.
9 Feb 2008 — Updated details of the the German (Heyne 1986) edition of The Haunted Woman to the editions page, now including the name of the translator, and updated the cover scan accessible from the gallery page.
27 Jan 2008 — Added a picture of L H Myers to the relevant notes page. Added the Black Cat Press edition of A Voyage to Arcturus to the editions and gallery pages. Added a scan of a contemporary review for one of Alexander Crawford's novels, to the relevant notes page. Added a reviews section to the M de Mailly page, starting out with a contemporary review from the New York Times.
10 Jan 2008 — Added info about the 2007 republication of Gary K Wolfe's Reader's Guide to David Lindsay to the secondary bibliography page; added details and cover image of the Wilder Publications edition of Arcturus to the editions and gallery pages.
24 Oct 2007 — Added link to the MySpace page of a band called The Violet Apple to the links page, Miscellaneous section.
17 Oct 2007 — Added review of E H Visiak: Writer and Mystic.
10 Oct 2007 — Added link to the Intute web directory to the links page.
6 Oct 2007 — Added BiblioBazaar large print edition of Arcturus to the Arcturus editions page, plus cover in the Arcturus gallery page. Added Paupers Press link on the buying page.
19 Sep 2007 — Added a page with a photograph of Pemrboke Crescent, Hove, where David Lindsay lived.
22 Jul 2007 — Added the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble's production of A Voyage to Arcturus to the list of adaptaions on the Voyage to Arcturus page. Additions to the links page: a podcast discussion of Arcturus, the use of Arcturus as a text for an article on the text layout description language TeX, and an article on Gnosticism in SF.
21 Jun 2007 — Added three titles to the Gollancz Fantasy & Macabre series list, thanks to Paul Annis. Added link to The Haunted Woman on Gutenberg Australia to the links page. Minor site-wide technical update (external links & formatting).
8 Jun 2007 — updated links to Tartarus Press, on their new server.
3 Jun 2007 — improved cover scan of the Savoy Press and Bison Press editions, and improved details on Bison book on the editions page.
27 May 2007 — added a cover scan of Colin Wilson's The Haunted Man to the secondary bibliography page.
26 May 2007 — updated details on the 1985 US Citadel Press edition of A Voyage to Arcturus on the editions page, including better cover scan for the gallery page, (this cover was previously misattributed to the Carol Publishing edition). Removed 1989 Citadel Press edition, as I'm not sure if this is correct.
6 May 2007 — added a link to a mention of Arcturus in a Gene Wolfe interview to the links page.
3 May 2007 — improved cover scan of the 1986 Heyne edition of Die Reise Zum Arcturus on the gallery page, and improved details of the book's entry on the Arcturus editions page, plus an illustrations gallery for this edition's interior illustrations.
29 Apr 2007 — added a page about Henry Kaiser's album, The Seance. Links to two people called Joiwind under Miscellaneous Links.
21 Apr 2007 — added the 1978 Gollancz HB reissue of A Voyage to Arcturus as a separate entry in the editions page, as it is not merely a reprint, but a new edition in a new Gollancz series; added information about the Gollancz Fantasy Collection to the Gollancz reissue series lists page.
17 Apr 2007 — better full cover scan of Bernard Sellin's Life & Works of David Lindsay.
14 Apr 2007 — better cover scan of Allison and Busby paperback edition of A Voyage to Arcturus, plus some alterations to this edition's entry on the Arcturus editions page.
8 Apr 2007 — better scan of the Times radio listing mentioning the Voyage to Arcturus dramatisation.
31 Mar 2007 — better cover scan of Canongate edition of A Voyage to Arcturus; added a page in the Notes section listing the books in Gollancz's various fantasy reissue series.
30 Mar 2007 — minor changes to the biography and timeline; added a brief quote from Bernard Sellin to the page on Alexander Crawford, and to the Voyage to Arcturus comparisons page; provided a better graphic for the Sphinx and Haunted Woman Times ads
25 Mar 2007 — changed the Philosophical Notes page to a Non-fiction page, so it can also cover the publication of Lindsay's letters. Fleshed out the entry on Bernard Sellin's book on the Secondary Bibliography page. Added mention of the letters publication, and the 1946 BBC radio programme on Lindsay to the Timeline.
7 Mar 2007 — changed the entry on Sellin's Life & Works of David Lindsay on the secondary bibliography page as it is now published.
26 Feb 2007 — more details (though based on a Google translation) on the Japanese editions of A Voyage to Arcturus and The Haunted Woman; link to John Coulthart's site on links page.
24 Feb 2007 — better cover scan of Sphere edition of A Voyage to Arcturus, corrected Sphere edition date to 1980, slightly better cover scan for one of the Canongate editions (see Arcturus editions page).
12 Feb 2007 — more details on 1975 Heyne edition of A Voyage to Arcturus, on the Arcturus editions page, plus larger cover scan
31 Jan 2007 — revised and extended the summary of The Witch; new article link on the links page
28 Jan 2007 — some more details to foreign editions of A Voyage to Arcturus and The Haunted Woman