The archive is kept by a small group of volunteers. Nobody is paid, nothing is sponsored, and each contributor answers for the entries that carry their name. Unsigned pages are the work of the group as a whole.
Ilse Marrowgate
Ilse Marrowgate edits the theory shelves of the archive. Her essays follow the afterlife of industrial places and the ideas people use to live among them: decline, pessimism, and the stubborn habit of expecting an ending.
Tobiah Fenwright
Tobiah Fenwright catalogs the esoteric holdings and writes the orientation primers. He approaches Hermetic, alchemical and magical literature as a historian of books: who copied what, from whom, and why it was believed.
Odalys Venn
Odalys Venn looks after the underground print collection, from stapled zines and mail art to pamphlets that survived in a single water-stained copy. She prepares most of the reading copies and writes the notes that accompany them.
Lucan Hartsell
Lucan Hartsell keeps the cabinet of curiosities: strange dispatches, conspiracy folklore and the grotesque gallery. He is interested in why odd stories travel, and treats a rumor as a document rather than a diagnosis.
- The Bonfire Accounts
- Curses for Books: Anathemas for the Modern Borrower
- Strange Dispatches: News from Places That Are Not on the Map
- Conspiracy Folklore: A Field Guide to Theories Nobody Needed
- The Grotesque Gallery: Six Plates
- Why Conspiracy Theories Feel True
- Classifieds from the Last Newspaper
- The Tin Sun Almanac
Dagny Ulvestrand
Dagny Ulvestrand translates for the library and writes on Gnostic thought, the sublime and the literature of refusal. Her translations favor plain speech over period costume.
Emeric Soltau
Emeric Soltau writes about irony, simulation and the manners of the networked image. He has contributed to the archive since its catalog was still photocopied.
Perpetua Blythe
Perpetua Blythe studies adversarial and marginal religion: Satanism in its literary and organized forms, the left-hand path, and small movements that gather around a date. She writes field guides for readers who want description before judgment.
- Voices in the Static: Spiritualism and the Machinery of the Dead
- The Curse of the Sun: A Reader's Guide to Expenditure
- Satanism: A Field Guide to Four Different Things
- What Transgression Was For
- The Left-Hand Path: Antinomianism as Method
- The Inverted Catechism
- How to Read a Fringe Religious Movement
- A Calendar of Failed Prophecies
- A Bestiary of Small Cults
- Manual for the Unconvinced
The Custodians
Entries signed by the Custodians are written and revised collectively by the volunteer editors who maintain the archive.