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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Dec 20, 2018 21:02:04 GMT
Spotted via Twitter; Sarah K Marr has put together an annotated version of A Warning to the Curious, complete with photographs, footnotes, historical notes, etc as a PDF downloadable from her website. I've only skimmed it so far, but it is very nicely presented and looks very interesting; sarahkmarr.com/
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 20, 2018 21:08:52 GMT
I looked through it myself a few hours ago, although without re-reading "A Warning...". It should have occurred to me to post here about it, glad you thought of it!
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Post by Shrink Proof on Dec 20, 2018 23:08:19 GMT
This is brilliant. It must've taken forever to gather all that information and lay it out so well.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Dec 21, 2018 18:07:20 GMT
Just in time for Christmas, Robert Lloyd Parry has released a video of his recitation of The Residence at Whitminster online, where it can be rented or purchased for download at a nominal cost. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this story told - or enacted - live last month, so I'm looking forward to revisiting it; vimeo.com/ondemand/residenceatwhitminster
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 21, 2018 20:03:05 GMT
Spotted via Twitter; Sarah K Marr has put together an annotated version of A Warning to the Curious, complete with photographs, footnotes, historical notes, etc as a PDF downloadable from her website. I've only skimmed it so far, but it is very nicely presented and looks very interesting; sarahkmarr.com/That is a pretty amazing and fascinating piece of work. Reminds me a bit of WG Sebald's Rings of Saturn.
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Post by ropardoe on Dec 22, 2018 9:30:50 GMT
Spotted via Twitter; Sarah K Marr has put together an annotated version of A Warning to the Curious, complete with photographs, footnotes, historical notes, etc as a PDF downloadable from her website. I've only skimmed it so far, but it is very nicely presented and looks very interesting; sarahkmarr.com/That is a pretty amazing and fascinating piece of work. Reminds me a bit of WG Sebald's Rings of Saturn. Yes, it's really excellent, with a lot of new research (especially on the "Rendlesham" crown). And some great pictures, useful maps, a timeline, etc.
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Post by elricc on Dec 22, 2018 10:50:38 GMT
That is a pretty amazing and fascinating piece of work. Reminds me a bit of WG Sebald's Rings of Saturn. Yes, it's really excellent, with a lot of new research (especially on the "Rendlesham" crown). And some great pictures, useful maps, a timeline, etc. I'm going to print it out and have a walk on the 27th
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 22, 2018 11:46:52 GMT
Spotted via Twitter; Sarah K Marr has put together an annotated version of A Warning to the Curious, complete with photographs, footnotes, historical notes, etc as a PDF downloadable from her website. I've only skimmed it so far, but it is very nicely presented and looks very interesting; sarahkmarr.com/That is a pretty amazing and fascinating piece of work. Reminds me a bit of WG Sebald's Rings of Saturn. Sebald mentioned on Vault. The day will go down in infamy.
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Post by helrunar on Dec 24, 2018 13:20:18 GMT
I listened to the "Haunting of M R James" hour-length radio drama last night, and I enjoyed it as a "ghost story for Xmas." I am uncertain whether we were intended to regard this as a hitherto unknown episode in the Master's life. But I quite liked Mark Gatiss' performance in the title role. An actress who played a lady who was either James McBride's widow or mother (I somehow missed the line that identified her) was also very good.
Just a nice bit of holiday cheer, with a rather morose creature lurking in the murk.. amazing to be able to listen to something like this here in the wilds of South Florida, where I am visiting family.
H.
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Post by ripper on Dec 27, 2018 10:46:20 GMT
I listened to the "Haunting of M R James" hour-length radio drama last night, and I enjoyed it as a "ghost story for Xmas." I am uncertain whether we were intended to regard this as a hitherto unknown episode in the Master's life. But I quite liked Mark Gatiss' performance in the title role. An actress who played a lady who was either James McBride's widow or mother (I somehow missed the line that identified her) was also very good. Just a nice bit of holiday cheer, with a rather morose creature lurking in the murk.. amazing to be able to listen to something like this here in the wilds of South Florida, where I am visiting family. H. Yes, I also enjoyed it and wouldn't mind more of the same.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Dec 28, 2018 12:44:01 GMT
About The Haunting of M.R. James, so far the adaptations have been intelligent reductions of the original stories. However, a half-hour time slot would have been better. I suspect that Saturday's play about M.R. James will be some sort of culmination of the adaptations. It's what I would do. I was right inasmuch as various elements about the supposed haunting of M.R. James in the play had been prefigured in the individual adaptations. The adaptations can be downloaded from here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06vz14yThe play can be downloaded from here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06vz5nw
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 29, 2019 13:50:28 GMT
Tales from the Hidden Notebooks of M R James. I've just come across this. I don't think I've heard of it before: www.amazon.co.uk/Tales-Hidden-Notebooks-Joseph-Denwood/dp/179080888X/ref=sr_1_21?keywords=m.r.+james+ghost+stories&qid=1559137235&s=books&sr=1-21 A tribute to the ghost stories of M R James. 'When the Old Provost's Lodge at King's College, Cambridge, was being restored in 1978, I was a doctoral student there, writing a thesis on the impact of the Reformation on the concept of the disembodied soul in Protestant countries. Already fascinated by James's interest in ghosts, I nipped into the Old Lodge late one afternoon, just after the workmen had gone, and looked around the rooms that the great man had occupied. A shaft of sunlight from the south-west suddenly entered the room I was in - it was, I think, his old bedroom - and lit up the plasterless chimney breast. This beam revealed a couple of bricks wholly devoid of mortar. I pulled the bricks out and found behind them a small cavity containing a stash of notebooks. I fished the books out with glee and, after a moment's inspection, saw that they appeared to have been written by the famous antiquarian himself. What is supremely interesting about these notebooks - if, indeed, they are genuine, as I believe - is that from them one can extract coherent stories about M R James's own encounters with the occult. As I am now nearing death myself, I have decided to publish edited versions of the notebooks, each monograph dealing with one curious episode in the great scholar's life.'This paperback edition contains all five stories published in this series on Kindle up to the end of 2018:+ The Cellars of Ezekiel+ The Hearties of Adonai+ The Organ of Corpusty+ The Island of Tyskär+ The Bones of PastonIt sounds a bit off to me. The author won't mind me saying that. He's "nearing death".
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Post by ropardoe on May 29, 2019 17:15:23 GMT
Tales from the Hidden Notebooks of M R James. I've just come across this. I don't think I've heard of it before: www.amazon.co.uk/Tales-Hidden-Notebooks-Joseph-Denwood/dp/179080888X/ref=sr_1_21?keywords=m.r.+james+ghost+stories&qid=1559137235&s=books&sr=1-21 A tribute to the ghost stories of M R James. 'When the Old Provost's Lodge at King's College, Cambridge, was being restored in 1978, I was a doctoral student there, writing a thesis on the impact of the Reformation on the concept of the disembodied soul in Protestant countries. Already fascinated by James's interest in ghosts, I nipped into the Old Lodge late one afternoon, just after the workmen had gone, and looked around the rooms that the great man had occupied. A shaft of sunlight from the south-west suddenly entered the room I was in - it was, I think, his old bedroom - and lit up the plasterless chimney breast. This beam revealed a couple of bricks wholly devoid of mortar. I pulled the bricks out and found behind them a small cavity containing a stash of notebooks. I fished the books out with glee and, after a moment's inspection, saw that they appeared to have been written by the famous antiquarian himself. What is supremely interesting about these notebooks - if, indeed, they are genuine, as I believe - is that from them one can extract coherent stories about M R James's own encounters with the occult. As I am now nearing death myself, I have decided to publish edited versions of the notebooks, each monograph dealing with one curious episode in the great scholar's life.'This paperback edition contains all five stories published in this series on Kindle up to the end of 2018:+ The Cellars of Ezekiel+ The Hearties of Adonai+ The Organ of Corpusty+ The Island of Tyskär+ The Bones of PastonIt sounds a bit off to me. The author won't mind me saying that. He's "nearing death". New to me too. The author's name is unfamiliar to me - no one has mentioned the book in the obvious places (e.g. the MRJ Facebook page). I will investigate.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 29, 2019 17:46:43 GMT
Gently, though. He is nearing death.
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Post by ropardoe on May 29, 2019 18:16:52 GMT
Gently, though. He is nearing death. So maybe my plan to break down his door and demand in strong language to know why I haven't been sent a review copy might not be such a good idea?
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