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Have you ever looked at our yearly Halloween shirts and wondered why we do them? How did this tradition start? First off, this tradition didn’t […]

When you’re in the book business, you soon get used to the fact that many of the phone calls and requests you get each day […]

I recently catalogued a book called Dracula: The Rare Text of 1901. Wait, what? I know of the alternate versions of Frankenstein, but Dracula also […]

If you’ve visited the Iliad since we re-modeled (during the lockdown), you may have noticed the beautiful wall of sets that now stands behind our […]

I was recently chatting with a friend who mentioned that she often stuck dollar bills in her books, and I replied by talking about the […]

“The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves […]

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was not only a great novelist and a keen observer of the foibles and social conventions of Victorian society, she was also […]

In 2009, the Museum of Modern Art did an exhibition of Tim Burton’s art, and that same year Steele Publishing put out a gorgeous, huge […]

My social media feeds occasionally ignite with discussions of the extraordinary hand-painted movie posters from Ghana. In case you’ve never heard of this, these date […]

Thanks to the serious skills of our mural artist Paul Dilworth, our mural (which extends down two sides of Iliad) includes not just literary scenes, […]