Sawfish, I've had the three Zimiamvia books for decades and yet haven't read them. I read
The Worm Ouroboros twice in the 1970s and have tried to reread it since but didn't persevere. My hunch is that I'd really like it
if I were in just the right mood. Whether that mood will occur, and at a time when I can indulge it, I don't know.
I wrote study guides for some of the works in the syllabus, but not, I think, on "Mark of the Beast," so when I post on it my remarks will be based on a reading this month.
The
Lilith notes were posted by the George MacDonald Society. If I were writing or editing them now, I might change some things, but this document should be pretty close to what I'd still say. In note #63, the summary of the Jewish folktale has been added by another hand.
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I'd have to get into my files to see which stories had notes -- I remember there were notes on Machen's "Black Seal." These notes haven't survived onto my present computer. They were made back in the floppy disk era... I think the larger floppies, in fact.