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Post by dem bones on Apr 26, 2016 19:32:47 GMT
It's actually a naff attempt at a portrait of Henry James! I'd been wondering about that for years. Same here, and knowing who it's supposed to be makes me love it even more.
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Post by ropardoe on Apr 28, 2016 9:21:14 GMT
I wonder if that E stands for Emma, and this is the same 'Emma James' whose ghost stories I've heard so much about... Ouch. I hope you're ashamed of yourself. You should be!
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Apr 29, 2016 12:47:59 GMT
I wonder if that E stands for Emma, and this is the same 'Emma James' whose ghost stories I've heard so much about... Ouch. I hope you're ashamed of yourself. You should be! I regularly am - or was, till I discovered how little shame I actually have - though in this case I'm quoting a genuine example, courtesy of an old friend's mother, talking about, 'that Emma James whose ghost stories you like so much.'
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Post by dem bones on Jul 6, 2016 7:37:22 GMT
Cover photograph.: Simon Marsden "Oh Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad ..." Jenny Uglow [ed.] - The Vintage Book Of Ghosts (Vintage, 1994). Spare us the leisurely build up. Please cut straight to the famous bedroom scene. I can admire the dedication went into compiling The Vintage Book Of Ghosts but, to this day, can't fathom the appeal.
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Post by ropardoe on Jul 10, 2016 9:37:46 GMT
"Oh Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad ..." Jenny Uglow [ed.] - The Vintage Book Of Ghosts (Vintage, 1994). Spare us the leisurely build up. Please cut straight to the famous bedroom scene. I can admire the dedication went into compiling The Vintage Book Of Ghosts but, to this day, can't fathom the appeal. I agree - it's hard to imagine anything more pointless.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 20, 2016 22:16:36 GMT
"Oh Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad ..." Jenny Uglow [ed.] - The Vintage Book Of Ghosts (Vintage, 1994). Spare us the leisurely build up. Please cut straight to the famous bedroom scene. I can admire the dedication went into compiling The Vintage Book Of Ghosts but, to this day, can't fathom the appeal. I agree - it's hard to imagine anything more pointless. Glad it's not just me! I attended a Halloween launch for this on Charing Cross Road, a joint event with Prof. Roderick Anscombe who was promoting his then-recently released The Secret Life Of Laszlo, Count Dracula (1994). Back then I'd yet to browse a copy of Vintage Book .., but, from Jenny Uglow's description, I wondered at the target audience for a collection of snippets from ghost stories, poems and essays. Seems to me Elizabeth Bowen's Hand In Glove, Lafcadio Hearn's The Corpse Rider, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Poor Thing and the stand alone(ish) Tomb-Legions chaper of H. P. Lovecraft's Herbert West: Reanimator are among the very few pieces reproduced in their entirety. Ambrose Bierce's The Moonlight Road is ransacked for Statement of the Late Julia Hetman, through the Medium Bayrolles even though the complete story only runs to four pages. Anyway. "Oh Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad ..." - in its full majesty - has notched up yet another appearance courtesy of Louise Welsh [ed.]'s Ghost: 100 Stories To Read With The Lights On (Head of Zeus, 2015)
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Post by Dr Terror on Oct 24, 2016 21:36:37 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Oct 25, 2016 7:04:20 GMT
Unless I'm missing something, you may like to rethink that link, Dr. T?
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Post by Dr Terror on Oct 25, 2016 9:00:23 GMT
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Post by ropardoe on Oct 25, 2016 11:27:06 GMT
It's very good, especially "The Mezzotint" and "The Ash-Tree". And expertly adapted by John Reppion and Leah Moore, who have kept the tone and most of the words of MRJ's originals. The excellent introduction by Ramsey is very much to the point too.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Feb 1, 2017 14:28:32 GMT
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