Something About Gog and Magog

For whom the bell tolls.

Something About Egbert Ludovicus Viele

Grave accent.

Something About the Crusader

And either victory, or else a grave.

Something About the Obelisk of Theodosius

Oh, pointy pointy.

Something About the Julius Caesar Statue

Give him a statue with his ancestors.

Something About the Charlemagne Statue

Magic to do.

Something About the Godfrey Bouillon Statue

Well stocked.

Something About the Curse of the Obelisk

On pins.

Something About MOYPIOI

Succeeds in unknown fate.

Something About the Haverhill Civil War Monument

With the young noble soldier.

Something About Some Sphinxes

Riddle ye this.

Something About a Fireman Statue

Make your memory fire on all cylinders!

Something About the Serpentine Column

Are three heads better than two?

Something About Red Idols

Babylonian Idol: the search for a superstar!

Call Again, He Is Made Of Stone

A contributor to our forum named Dan wrote to us last year to say he was making his way through The Chessmen of Doom for the first time in over a decade. In the early chapters of the novel something “tugged at [his] memory” when he read the description of Peregrine “Perry” Childermass’ tomb:

The massive bronze doors of the tomb were flanked by two Grecian columns, and the Childermass name was chiseled on the cornice. A few feet from the entrance stood a white marble statue of a bearded man in old-fashioned formal dress. He held a top hat and gloves in one hand, and with his other hand he pointed at the tomb [The Chessmen of Doom; 16].

The Grave of the Unknown Stranger

I found the vignettes in this article interesting – and in one case, a bit Bellairsian. Even the title of this post strikes me as a potential book title.