The Dark Tower

A collection of Lewis's shorter and unfinished fiction, edited with a preface by Walter Hooper and published by Collins in London and Harcourt in New York in 1977. Its main item is 'The Dark Tower', an untitled fragment of about sixty-four manuscript pages, named by Hooper, in which Cambridge academics use a 'chronoscope' to watch another time where automaton-like people build a tower for a horned figure; it involves characters from the Ransom novels and breaks off unfinished. The volume also contains 'The Man Born Blind', 'The Shoddy Lands', 'Ministering Angels', 'Forms of Things Unknown' and 'After Ten Years', the last four reprinted from Of Other Worlds (1966). Kathryn Lindskoog argued that 'The Dark Tower' was not by Lewis; the Lewis estate and most scholars accept it, and Alastair Fowler recalled discussing parts of it with Lewis.