Trivia / Lord of the World

• Creator-Driven Successor: Msgr Benson wrote The Dawn of All as a counterpart to Lord of the World. In this novel, Christianity is the central power of the entire world, yet an amnesiac priest wakes up in this world and notices that this is not his world, nor does he recognize the Church in this world as his, let alone Christ's. Msgr Benson himself said that he aims to "sketch the kind of developments [that] may reasonably be expected should...ancient thought...be prolonged instead."
• Magnum Opus Dissonance: Lord of the World is probably the most well-known of Msgr Robert Hugh Benson's fiction; it has many admirers in Catholic circles and has been called prophetic by Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. The work that Msgr Benson deemed his personal favorite is The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary, a historical novel in which the titular Richard is sent by God to deliver a message of dire importance to the king, but gets harassed by the king's men along the way.