The current archive is being maintained, though because we believe we lost the owner, the stories need to be salvaged.

I'm admittedly a little concerned about this. If this is a situation where the archive may go poof when domain renewal rolls around, wouldn't trying to get the entire site onto the Internet Archive be a more prudent path? Or is this being done at the request of someone currently maintaining the archive in the owner's place? Have any of the archived authors been contacted about importing their own works?