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Rare Book Librarian. Booktuber. Pirate History Enthusiast. Loves mushrooms, weird fiction, and long cemetery walks. https://www.youtube.com/c/infinitetext

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Also at the Merril: Dracula by Bram Stoker (1847–1912), Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897 — a first edition #Dracula #SFF #TPL

08.03.2026 13:43 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
10 Nonfiction Books about Pirates and Ships I enjoyed
10 Nonfiction Books about Pirates and Ships I enjoyed YouTube video by Infinite Text

New video on Pirate books and Ship Books (nonfiction) #booktube www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2nf...

08.03.2026 11:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Did you know the Merril Collection holds a real Hugo Award?
Judith Merril began her own biography but didn’t finish it. Her granddaughter Emily Pohl-Weary completed Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril, which won the Hugo Award in 2003. She donated the Hugo to the Merril Collection! #sff

06.03.2026 20:32 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Become a Friend of the Library Through the generosity of Friends, the Robertson Davies Library will endure as a living resource - preserving the past while shaping the future of humanities scholarship. As a steward of this remark...

The Robertson Davies Library has created a Friends of the Library Program. If you would like to join follow the link: masseycollege.app.neoncrm.com/forms/friend...

26.02.2026 19:38 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Spaced Out Library, Palmerston Branch, 1974. In the late 1960s, Judith Merril donated ~5,000 books to Rochdale College and an endowment grew into the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation, and Fantasy at the Lillian H. Smith Branch, now 80,000+ items strong.
#sff #tpl #toronto #scifi

02.03.2026 19:12 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

I didn't know there was one! I only knew about the Futurians feud....that Moskowitz!

25.02.2026 12:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"I chose the woodpulps, and I do not in the slightest regret my choice."
—Robert E. Howard to H. P. Lovecraft, Jan 1934

22.02.2026 16:18 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Strange Day. Had fun though. #pulps #vintagescifi

21.02.2026 22:35 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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“In Memoriam” (1937) by Hazel Heald Hazel Heald had three letters published in the pages of Weird Tales. The first was published in the more-or-less immediate aftermath of Lovecraft’s death. Lovecraft died on 15 March 1937; in …

This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we look at "In Memoriam" by Hazel Heald, and her letters in WEIRD TALES.

deepcuts.blog/2026/02/21/i...

21.02.2026 16:58 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Amazing! Fantastic! Astounding! Science Fiction and the Pulp Magazines. Celebrate the 100th anniversary of Amazing Stories, see original pulp art, decades-old magazines, books, and more. February 16 – May 3, 2026.

#ScienceFiction #PulpMagazines #AmazingStories #LiteraryHistory #MerrilCollection

20.02.2026 18:15 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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CRABS ON THE RAMPAGE (Guy N Smith Re-revisited) Graham and Phil return to Derry & Toms to tackle our third adventure in the company of the mighty Professor Cliff Davenport in the first of a one-two punch of GNS-related early Halloween action…

Three more days to our 2025 Halloween spesh, when we will continue our run of pulp killer critter shenanigans. In the meantime, here is Crabs on the Rampage from a couple of years ago. Because @guynsmith.bsky.social can not be denied.

29.10.2025 09:30 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
Weird Frequencies: Strange Stories by Stranger Authors : Swick, J.: Amazon.co.uk: Books Weird Frequencies: Strange Stories by Stranger Authors : Swick, J.: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Check out this amazing anthology of weird science fiction short stories but out by some weird booktubers: amzn.eu/d/4lEx1OX

17.12.2025 14:27 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Flower-Women by Clark Ashton Smith
The Flower-Women by Clark Ashton Smith YouTube video by Infinite Text

I was feeling like revisiting Clark Ashton Smith today www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmdG...

11.02.2026 18:51 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Have you considered buying a ton of Weird Tales magazines in eBay bidding wars?

10.02.2026 12:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I've been looking for that encyclopedia! Is it worth it?

08.02.2026 13:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Arctic Fever Vlog and Empire of Ice and Stone
Arctic Fever Vlog and Empire of Ice and Stone YouTube video by Infinite Text

the last 2 weeks #booktube www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF3-...

06.02.2026 23:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes I have the British one! I tend to collect those

04.02.2026 14:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So..this looks AMAZING ..I am going to get it (never heard of it so thank you!)

04.02.2026 13:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In March We are Reading about TRAINS! | March on the Rails
In March We are Reading about TRAINS! | March on the Rails YouTube video by Infinite Text

#marchontherails we are reading about Trains in March! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdEE...

04.02.2026 12:34 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Sherlock Holmes Special Library 🔎
Sherlock Holmes Special Library 🔎 YouTube video by Infinite Text

A Visit at the Sherlock Holmes library #sherlockholmes www.youtube.com/watch?v=a73I...

03.02.2026 18:23 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Back at the Sherlock Holmes library

03.02.2026 14:31 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Happy 120th Birthday, Robert E. Howard!
Happy 120th Birthday, Robert E. Howard! YouTube video by Robert E. Howard Foundation

Tomorrow (Jan 22nd) will be 120 years since Robert E. Howard was born! As a little celebration of his life and extraordinary literary corpus we have worked on a little homage (I'm somewhere in the middle) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClUF...

22.01.2026 02:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I will work that in the next vlog 😂

21.01.2026 22:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Book-Centric Vlog, a Weird Tales Flip-Through & Tiny Book Haul
A Book-Centric Vlog, a Weird Tales Flip-Through & Tiny Book Haul YouTube video by Infinite Text

Today's #WeirdWednesday is a weird vlog including manuscripts, Weird Tales flip through, a haul, and jazzy walk through bookstores #Books www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xu6...

21.01.2026 21:16 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Not yet but I will add it to the nautical list and get it soon. This is the next ship book on my list

18.01.2026 20:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Wager: A Masterclass in Nonfiction Writing
The Wager: A Masterclass in Nonfiction Writing YouTube video by Infinite Text

I really loved this one youtu.be/2UGwntrbVZw?...

18.01.2026 13:10 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

beautiful!

10.01.2026 19:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have not read that Quinn story! that sounds like something to add for next December. Any weird is good!

10.01.2026 19:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I was interviewed by CBC News #library #librarian www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

10.01.2026 18:59 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Currently Reading, January Plans, and A Weird Book Haul from Friends
Currently Reading, January Plans, and A Weird Book Haul from Friends YouTube video by Infinite Text

Catching up, Weird Fiction book haul, reading updates #booktube #weird www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFkN...

10.01.2026 18:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0