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Post by ropardoe on Aug 21, 2017 9:22:38 GMT
The new issue of the Ghosts & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter (with accompanying extra booklet by a name familiar to most of you!) is nearly ready and will probably be going to the printer in the next couple of weeks. Here are the details:
52 pages including supplement. New Jamesian Fiction: "Ting-a-Ling-a-Ling" by Daniel McGachey (can a magnificent but sinister automaton truly raise the dead?): this terrifying novella is too long to include in the Newsletter so it will be published as a separate 28pp booklet, available only as a supplement to Newsletter 32. Non-Fiction: A previously-unreprinted 1923 interview with M.R. James; three "Jamesian Notes & Queries" articles (two by me, one by Peter Bell); plus lengthy News (including Rick Kennett's column on Jamesian podcasts), Reviews and Letters sections.
If anyone needs subscription info, etc., let me have your email address and I'll send you a flyer.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Aug 23, 2017 12:06:50 GMT
The new issue of the Ghosts & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter (with accompanying extra booklet by a name familiar to most of you!) is nearly ready and will probably be going to the printer in the next couple of weeks. Here are the details: 52 pages including supplement. New Jamesian Fiction: "Ting-a-Ling-a-Ling" by Daniel McGachey (can a magnificent but sinister automaton truly raise the dead?): this terrifying novella is too long to include in the Newsletter so it will be published as a separate 28pp booklet, available only as a supplement to Newsletter 32. Non-Fiction: A previously-unreprinted 1923 interview with M.R. James; three "Jamesian Notes & Queries" articles (two by me, one by Peter Bell); plus lengthy News (including Rick Kennett's column on Jamesian podcasts), Reviews and Letters sections. If anyone needs subscription info, etc., let me have your email address and I'll send you a flyer. A previously-unreprinted interview with M.R. James? The 1956 Whistle and I'll Come to You? Will the previously-undiscovered Jamesiana ever end?
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Post by ropardoe on Sept 4, 2017 8:36:18 GMT
The new issue of the Ghosts & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter (with accompanying extra booklet by a name familiar to most of you!) is nearly ready and will probably be going to the printer in the next couple of weeks. Here are the details: 52 pages including supplement. New Jamesian Fiction: "Ting-a-Ling-a-Ling" by Daniel McGachey (can a magnificent but sinister automaton truly raise the dead?): this terrifying novella is too long to include in the Newsletter so it will be published as a separate 28pp booklet, available only as a supplement to Newsletter 32. Non-Fiction: A previously-unreprinted 1923 interview with M.R. James; three "Jamesian Notes & Queries" articles (two by me, one by Peter Bell); plus lengthy News (including Rick Kennett's column on Jamesian podcasts), Reviews and Letters sections. If anyone needs subscription info, etc., let me have your email address and I'll send you a flyer. A previously-unreprinted interview with M.R. James? The 1956 Whistle and I'll Come to You? Will the previously-undiscovered Jamesiana ever end? Yes, the interview was known about but no one had managed to find it until now. Brian Showers was the successful detective. The issue is at the printer now and I should be mailing out copies starting late next week. Your letter is in it, Michael.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Sept 4, 2017 12:26:43 GMT
A previously-unreprinted interview with M.R. James? The 1956 Whistle and I'll Come to You? Will the previously-undiscovered Jamesiana ever end? Yes, the interview was known about but no one had managed to find it until now. Brian Showers was the successful detective. The issue is at the printer now and I should be mailing out copies starting late next week. Your letter is in it, Michael. While it's only a squib, my letter is also about previously-undiscovered Jamesiana. I can autograph copies of the Newsletter (for a small fee).
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Post by helrunar on Sept 4, 2017 13:37:16 GMT
I thought of Ghosts and Scholars earlier this morning while reading the first chapter of Robert Graves' (in)famous book The White Goddess. I'm going to be working through it with a group of friends beginning in November. This text is such a mare's nest of paradox and obsession that I need to have a preliminary go at the thing.
Anyhow, at the end of this first chapter, I was reminded that in his excellent editor's Introduction, Grevel Lindop acknowledges that Graves must have been remembering James' exquisite tale "The Ash Tree" in his concluding paragraph:
The Night Mare is one of the cruellest aspects of the White Goddess. Her nests, when one comes across them in dreams, lodged in rock-clefts or the branches of enormous hollow yews, are built of carefully chosen twigs, lined with white horsehair and the plumage of prophetic birds and littered with the jaw-bones and entrails of poets. The prophet Job said of her: "She dwelleth and abideth upon the rock. Her young ones also suck up blood."
H.
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Post by ropardoe on Sept 4, 2017 14:59:58 GMT
I thought of Ghosts and Scholars earlier this morning while reading the first chapter of Robert Graves' (in)famous book The White Goddess. I'm going to be working through it with a group of friends beginning in November. This text is such a mare's nest of paradox and obsession that I need to have a preliminary go at the thing. Anyhow, at the end of this first chapter, I was reminded that in his excellent editor's Introduction, Grevel Lindop acknowledges that Graves must have been remembering James' exquisite tale "The Ash Tree" in his concluding paragraph: The Night Mare is one of the cruellest aspects of the White Goddess. Her nests, when one comes across them in dreams, lodged in rock-clefts or the branches of enormous hollow yews, are built of carefully chosen twigs, lined with white horsehair and the plumage of prophetic birds and littered with the jaw-bones and entrails of poets. The prophet Job said of her: "She dwelleth and abideth upon the rock. Her young ones also suck up blood."H. That's not the only time The White Goddess refers to an MRJ story! I happen to mention something about the other reference in the News section of the forthcoming Ghosts & Scholars. I encountered The White Goddess first at a very impressionable age (early-mid teens, I think), and believed every word of it. Since then I've reread it at least half a dozen times and now know not to believe most of it - doesn't matter, it's still a wonder and a joy!
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Post by helrunar on Sept 4, 2017 22:34:19 GMT
Thanks, Ro! The edition of White Goddess I am reading is a rather remarkable one. It was the result of Grevel Lindop getting permission to visit Graves' widow who was still living in their old house from the 1930s in Spain, and being allowed to go through a heavily annotated and corrected copy of the book that Graves left there. Also on the shelves were all the books he had studied and mentioned in the text when he had written it in the 1940s. The result was published in 1997, providentially one year ahead of the 50th anniversary of the original publication.
Wishing you all the best with the release of the new issue.
cheers, H.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 5, 2017 10:21:04 GMT
Not sure this qualifies as a 'lost MRJ article' but have scanned on the off-chance some of our haunted librarians may not have seen it. From The Sounds Book Of Horror, a fab free give-away with the Nov. 30 1985 issue, Sandy Robertson selects 'Terror's Top Ten.'
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Post by ropardoe on Sept 5, 2017 12:39:36 GMT
Not sure this qualifies as a 'lost MRJ article' but have scanned on the off-chance some of our haunted librarians may not have seen it. From The Sounds Book Of Horror, a fab free give-away with the Nov. 30 1985 issue, Sandy Robertson selects 'Terror's Top Ten.'
Hadn't seen this, but Sandy Robertson is a long-time G&S/G&S Newsletter subscriber. A fine person (obviously)!
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Post by dem bones on Sept 5, 2017 13:35:31 GMT
Hadn't seen this, but Sandy Robertson is a long-time G&S/G&S Newsletter subscriber. A fine person (obviously)! Wasn't/ isn't Edwin 'Savage Pencil' Pouncey - Sandy's collaborator on The Sound Book Of Horror - a long time G & S man? Can recall his listing the Fall's Perverted By Language and G & S in a Sounds 'best of year' round up. He also reviewed your publication for the NME. Have kept that clipping, so will scan if/ when I root it out.
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Post by helrunar on Sept 5, 2017 14:43:54 GMT
Interesting cutting--thanks for the scan. Nice to see Ramsey included!
I'm probably the only Resident to offer this opinion, but I could never feel even a mild level of interest in the works of Stephen King. I spot-read some passages of Carrie at a library at some point--it did nothing for me, and that lack of response seemed final. I did enjoy the film but I think Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie took the honors for that happenstance.
I usually keep this unpopular opinion to myself but the shock of seeing King rated over Lovecraft, Poe, James et al. somehow prompts me to share.
I really do have to be careful not to bruit this view abroad... a sometime local Friend With Benefits once told a roomful of listeners (I was standing in the wings, as it were) that he doesn't sleep with people who don't read King. I managed a small dry chuckle ... a very quiet guffaw.
cheers, H.
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Post by Swampirella on Sept 5, 2017 15:29:52 GMT
I'm not a fan of Stephen King either; I enjoyed "Carrie" (book and movie) and "Salem's Lot" (book only), then lost interest, except for movie versions of his books if on tv. I may or may not pay to see "It".....
Several hours later: I just remembered how much fun "Thinner" (the movie) was.....
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Sept 5, 2017 15:50:31 GMT
For what it is worth, I abhor Stephen King.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 5, 2017 16:29:22 GMT
I love Pet Sematary, but each to their own. Anyway. The New Flesh, "Edwin 'Droog' Pouncey's Guide To All Things Goth (?!)," NME, 16th January 1988. The pages are too big to fit under my scanner so have just provided the intro and G & S content. In a later 'Word Up,' Edwin also references the Equation Chillers series, paying particular attention to A. M. Burrage's Warning Whispers.
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Post by helrunar on Sept 5, 2017 16:39:22 GMT
Another nice cutting. There seems to be some backstory about Mr. Pouncey... will have to trawl googly in search of enlightenment. I do appreciate his reference to Ro's expert hand. Respect!
cheers, H.
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