Gothic, ghost story, psychological suspense, horror, and fantasy ranging from the early days of Blackwood's Magazine to the mid-1930s.

Pleasant 20th-century novels of manners, gentle satire, chick- and lad-lit, magazine-fodder short fiction, and the like from Edwardian days to the advent of World War II.

Live theatre

Potentially useful primary or secondary sources for historical or cultural topics on collective human interaction. For individual history, see Biography, Memoir, & Historical Mis-en-Scene.

Books on or relating to music, its history, producers, and consumers.

Theoretical and practical texts on belief sets and systems existing without generally recognized empirical proof.

Some theoretical, but mostly practical, texts on subjects from cellular biology to human health.

Social Sciences - Potentially useful primary or secondary sources for historical or cultural topics. (See these lists also: History & Geography, Sacred Technologies & Heuristics)

Critical and exemplary texts concerning visual arts and crafts, excluding theatre, music, or mass communication media. For practical or tutorial texts, see Practical References.

Soothing, encouraging, humorous, familiar - Stories to help take the sting from a difficult time.

Web, television, film, radio - everything but straight, noncontextual literary criticism.

Anthologies, essays, story collections . . . bite-sized narratives to be read in one sitting.

Literature and Rhetoric - Potentially useful primary or secondary sources for historical or cultural topics.

Technology (Applied Sciences) - Potentially useful primary or secondary sources for historical or cultural topics.

Language - Potentially useful primary or secondary sources for historical or cultural topics.

*(Or have been exalted beyond a useful degree by their Lit Crits)

Books known or suspected to be humorous, published between the end of the Great War and the election of Richard Nixon.

Their friends, enemies, coworkers, amours, descendants, and milieu.