Lord of the Hollow Dark

KIRK, Russell

Arts & Photography

St.Martin's Press

Though much has been written about T. S. Eliot since it was first published, Eliot and His Age remains the best introduction to the poet’s life, ideas, and literary works. It is the essential starting place for anyone who would understand what Eliot was about. Russell Kirk’s view of his older friend is sympathetic but not adulatory. His insights into Eliot’s writings are informed by wide reading in the same authors who most influenced the poet, as well as by similar experiences and convictions. Kirk elaborates here a significant theory of literary meaning in general, showing how great literary works awaken our intuitive reason, giving us profound visions of truth that transcend logical processes. And he traces Eliot’s political and cultural ideas to their true sources, showing the balance and subtlety of Eliot’s views. Eliot and His Age is a literary biography that will endure when much of the more recent writing on Eliot is gathering dust.

Eliot and his age;: T. S. Eliot's moral imagination in the twentieth century

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Random House]

The Conservative Mind

The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk is arguably one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American Conservatism. Brilliant in\nevery respect, from its conception to its choice of significant figures representing the history of intellectual conservatism, The Conservative\nMind by Russell Kirk launched the modern American Conservative Movement. A must-read.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

www.bnpublishing.com

Masters of crime fictionimmediately hailed Shell Games, which introduced a dynamic new hero and anexciting new author. Michael Connelly: "You know when you read this onethat you are on to something good. Kirk Russell comes out of the gate with astory brimming with fresh characters and artful prose." John Lescroart:"Excellent...a compelling plot, fully realized characters, white-knucklesuspense, and unusual yet accessible settings." Ridley Pearson: "...awonderfully unpredictable plot that holds the reader hostage to the very lastpage." And Jan Burke: "...a great read...it's hard to believe it's afirst novel." Hero John Marquez runs an undercover unit of the CaliforniaDepartment of Fish and Game and is taking on international abalone poachers,when he discovers that he's not finished with the ghosts and threats from hispast as a drug agent. A completely original and entertaining eco-thriller andcrime novel, now in paperback.

Shell Games

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Robert Hale, Ltd.

Kirk ingeniously combines four great struggles in the life of renowned 18th-century British statesman Edmund Burke. 6 cassettes.

Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered

Historical

Blackstone Pub

Attorney Hugh Logan leaves Canada for Scotland to negotiate the purchase of Carnglass Island and the castle Old House of Fear for his employer, Duncan MacAskival. Logan is continually thwarted and threatened on his journey. But no matter how bad his travels, his arrival onto the island brings much worse trouble. Carnglass is under the control of evil genius Dr. Edmund Jackman, a Soviet-educated political revolutionary convinced that Logan is a spy who must die. Will Jackman's plot be thwarted? Will Logan be able to rescue the lovely niece of the noble owner of Old House? Will anyone get off the island alive? Debuting in the 1960s, Old House of Fear was Russell Kirk's most popular book, selling more than all his other books combined. Yet this Gothic tale is more than just a fascinating work of fiction. As in all of Kirk's stories, a deeper meaning emerges -- in this case, a satirization of Marxism and liberalism -- demonstrating the acute sense of the moral that sets Kirk apart from other genre writers.

Old House of Fear

Literature & Fiction

United States

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Russell Kirk (1918-1994) was an active participant in the intellectual, social, and political contests of our era. This memoir, written dispassionately in the third person, is a lively account of the literary and political controversies of more than half a century.

The Sword of Imagination: Memoirs of a Half-Century of Literary Conflict

ISI Conservative Classics

Foreword by Vigen Guroian 
Widely regarded as the founder of the modern conservative movement, Russell Kirk was a noted man of letters whose prodigious literary career included a syndicated newspaper column and a regular page in National Review. This volume demonstrates another compelling side of Kirk — the imaginative author who could communicate his powerful vision through the dramatic genre of the ghost story. 
Ancestral Shadows collects nineteen of Kirk's best ghostly tales from periodicals and anthologies published throughout his life. In the tradition of Defoe, Stevenson, Hawthorne, Coleridge, Poe, and other master writers, these frightful stories conjure the creaks and shadows of the very places where they came to life through Kirk's pen: haunted St. Andrews, the Isle of Eigg, Kellie Castle, Balcarres House, Durie House ("which has the most persistent of all country-house specters"), and Kirk's own ancestral spooky house in Mecosta, Michigan. 
The volume ends with "A Cautionary Note on the Ghostly Tale," an incisive piece in which Kirk reflects on why he writes such stories." All important literature has some ethical end," Kirk says, "and the tale of the preternatural — as written by George Macdonald, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and other masters — can be an instrument for the recovery of moral order." 
Masterfully crafted, Kirk's Ancestral Shadows will enthrall and delight all lovers of ghost stories.

Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales

ISI Distributed Titles

Sword Of Imagination: Memoirs Half Century Literary Conflict

This book addresses the authors' concern that America's government bureaucracy is being employed to bring religious organizations within the government's jurisdiction. This volume is the result of a conference at which the speakers attempted to break through current illusions about religion, politics and education. Co-published with the Center for Judicial Studies.

The Assault on Religion

Religion & Spirituality

University Press of America

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