Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine, I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a file full of Chesterton ancedotes. They were idiosyncratic, historical, and Chestertonian. He gave me permission to use them here. I hope y'all find them as interesting as I have over the years. Most of them have never been published.
Chesterton Short(s)
Never Take Things at Face Value Department: the June, 1953, edition of MacKills Mystery Magazine featured "The Vampire of the Village," billed as "here published for the first time in a British magazine." The announcement must have come as a surprise to the editors of The Strand magazine, who were the original publishers of the story in August of 1936.
(EJS note for the non-GKCers out there: "The Vampire of the Village" is a well-known Father Brown story.)
