Russell Kirk (1918-1994) was the author of some thirty-two books, hundreds of periodical essays, and many short stories. Both Time and Newsweek have described him as one of America’s leading thinkers, and The New York Times acknowledged the scale of his influence when in 1998 it wrote that Kirk’s 1953 book The Conservative Mind “gave American conservatives an identity and a genealogy and catalyzed the postwar movement.”
Russell Kirk’s Sand Hill Trilogy
Unlike Russell Kirk’s better-known stories, “Off the Sand Road,” along with “Skyberia” and “Lost Lake,” are not tales of the supernatural, though there is a strong sense of the eerie about them. Together they form a trilogy of sorts, depicting the odd mix of wild rural beauty and slumbering menace that characterize the wild marches [...]
