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Post by ropardoe on Apr 19, 2018 8:56:56 GMT
I mentioned on the Newsdesk a few days ago that Elsa Wallace has sadly died. ("Very sorry to hear of the sudden and unexpected death of Elsa Wallace, who was a staunch supporter of Ghosts & Scholars for more years than almost anyone else. She produced two collections of short supernatural stories (http://www.paradisepress.org.uk/author/elsa-wallace), some of them excellent; and contributed to the second G&S Book of Shadows, with 'A Tale from Kildonan', about the early history of Lord Saul from 'The Residence at Whitminster'. She was someone whose heart was in the right place on many issues about which I also feel strongly (animal welfare, for instance). A force for good in this world.")
Now Elsa's partner has very kindly agreed to let me include two previously unpublished stories by Elsa in the next issue of G&S (Autumn). One is a prequel to "The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance" and the other is folk horror with Jamesian touches.
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Post by ropardoe on Aug 14, 2018 8:51:54 GMT
Here, for your edification, are the contents of the upcoming Ghosts & Scholars 34:
New Jamesian Fiction:
"The Suppell Stone" (does a prehistoric stone have a guardian or does it have another means of defence?) and "The Chalk Pit" (a prequel to M.R. James's "The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance": what are the true facts of Uncle Henry's death?): two previously unpublished stories by Elsa Wallace: a memorial to this fine author and long-time supporter of Ghosts & Scholars, who died in April 2018. "My Dancing Days are Over" by Paul StJohn Mackintosh (a prequel to "Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance").
Non-Fiction: "H.F.W. Tatham: An Outlier of the James Gang" by Joseph Hinton.
"The Jamesian Elliott O'Donnell?" by Peter Bell.
"The Watermelon and the Hatstand: On Aickman's 'The School Friend' and Others" by Mark Valentine.
"Jamesian Notes & Queries", News (including Rick Kennett's column on Jamesian podcasts) and Reviews sections.
The issue should be out in October, on schedule, as long as my on-going chronic health problems don't intervene. I won't say what they are here for fear of being bombarded by spam from snake oil salesmen trying to sell me 'cures'. But suffice to say they're boringly common and, be assured, they're not at all life-threatening.
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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 14, 2018 9:55:30 GMT
Here, for your edification, are the contents of the upcoming Ghosts & Scholars 34: Looking forward to it.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Aug 15, 2018 12:35:56 GMT
Why is it almost seventeen years late?
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Post by ropardoe on Sept 24, 2018 15:19:17 GMT
G&S 34 just back from the printer. We'll be sending copies out over the next couple of weeks.
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Post by mrhappy on Sept 25, 2018 13:35:19 GMT
G&S 34 just back from the printer. We'll be sending copies out over the next couple of weeks. Do you still have copies available to purchase? If so, hold me one and I will drop $13 in the post tomorrow. Mr Happy
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Post by ropardoe on Sept 25, 2018 15:41:57 GMT
G&S 34 just back from the printer. We'll be sending copies out over the next couple of weeks. Do you still have copies available to purchase? If so, hold me one and I will drop $13 in the post tomorrow. Mr Happy Yes, copies still available!
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Sept 27, 2018 11:21:14 GMT
My contributor copies arrived yesterday. A good, lively mix of stories and features that should keep me occupied for the foreseeable.
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Post by mrhappy on Sept 30, 2018 19:53:44 GMT
Do you still have copies available to purchase? If so, hold me one and I will drop $13 in the post tomorrow. Mr Happy Yes, copies still available! Thank you! You have money on the way. Mr Happy
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 2, 2018 11:11:29 GMT
I received Ghosts & Scholars 34 yesterday and skimmed through it. The Lurker has commandeered the front and back cover, which looks like the beginning of a hostile takeover. I read the news about Daryl Jones writing a new biography of M.R. James for OUP. Just last week I was thinking that a reissue of the Michael Cox biography would be welcome. This seems much less likely now.
As M.R. James is most famous now for his ghost stories I would prefer to see a biography include a focus on how his life and work was reflected in his fiction. There is scads of material on this from the Haunted Library alone. I've no time for Freudian analysis that, unless the material being considered is explicitly sexual in nature, seems to be academic posturing.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 2, 2018 11:29:08 GMT
We do need more sexually explicit material about M R James.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 2, 2018 11:34:56 GMT
We do need more sexually explicit material about M R James. I think that this is a picture of M.R. James reading one of his "adult" stories.
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Post by Swampirella on Oct 2, 2018 11:38:46 GMT
We do need more sexually explicit material about M R James. I think that this is a picture of M.R. James reading one of his "adult" stories. I was waiting and wondering how you'd react to that (typically provocative) post!
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 2, 2018 11:40:08 GMT
I think that this is a picture of M.R. James reading one of his "adult" stories. I was waiting and wondering how you'd react to that (typically provocative) post! One of my teachers called me Sewer Brain. What's your excuse?
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Post by Dr Strange on Oct 2, 2018 14:48:22 GMT
Just last week I was thinking that a reissue of the Michael Cox biography would be welcome. This seems much less likely now. As M.R. James is most famous now for his ghost stories I would prefer to see a biography include a focus on how his life and work was reflected in his fiction. There is scads of material on this from the Haunted Library alone. I've no time for Freudian analysis that, unless the material being considered is explicitly sexual in nature, seems to be academic posturing. I've got the Cox biography - it's a few years since I read it, but I seem to remember there being remarkably little in it about James's ghost stories, and it being much more focused on his academic life (I think Cox said something in the Intro along the lines of the ghost stories being too well known for him to be able to add anything by discussing them). I'm no fan of the psychoanalytic approach either - except when an author is consciously and deliberately using ideas from psychoanalysis (like Aickman, for example). Having said that, if the material is "explicitly sexual" then psychoanalysis would seem to be redundant anyway.
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