Step into the World of The Name in the Stone
The house is real. So is the name cut into its wall. So are the Muckleston family, the streets, and many of the people Henry Collier meets in the Kingston of 1875. Henry himself is invented, and so are the boy Alfred Shaw and everything that happens to them. These pages show where the record ends and the story begins.
The Persons Concerned
The dramatis personae as they stand at the diary’s opening — real and invented names together, spoiler-free.
On the Record
The real people who actually lived, each with a line or two and a link where a trustworthy source exists.
On the Map
The book’s locations, in diary order, with present-day photographs of the buildings and sites as they stand now.
The Brosius Map
The story of Herman Brosius’s 1875 bird’s-eye view of Kingston — the city as it wished to be seen, from the year the diary was written.
About the House
The very real historic home, Muckleston House, in Kingston at the centre of the story that still stands today.