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Post by dem bones on Oct 31, 2023 13:25:31 GMT
Arrived today. Nice timing, Mr. Valentine! Katherine Haynes [ed.] - Ghosts & Scholars 45 (Haunted Library, Oct. 2023). Rich Phillips; L-R The Manuscript Library, Moonlit Road Katherine Haynes - Editorial
Jamesian News
Rick Kennett - Jamesian Podcasts
Rosemary Pardoe - Lady Waldrop's Notes
The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Landscape Figures: Submissions invited
Fiction
Carole Tyrrell - Wunderkammer
Robbie Porter - Mannerly
Marion Pitman - Incident in a Bookshop
Articles
C. E. Ward - Mr Wraxall & Mr. Rotherham
Jim Bryant - In the Tracks of M. R. James 8: Two English Summers: August 1886 and 1888. Companions Hugh Childers, Herbert Tatham & Arthur Benson
Reviews
Benjamin Harris, on C. E. Ward, An Unheavenly Host
Rosemary Pardoe, on Christopher Harman, Blood Wood & Other Stories
Katherine Haynes, on Rosemary Pardoe, The Black Pilgrimage 2: Further Explorations in Supernatural Fiction
Tina Rath, on The Witches of M. R. James, performed by Robert Lloyd Parry. |
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Post by dem bones on Nov 22, 2023 13:09:49 GMT
Perhaps the most intriguing snippet among the Jamesian News "Peter Bell has an article on MRJ and folk horror soon to appear in the Hamlyn Book of Folk Horror." Anyone have any details on this? It can't be a Dan Farson—Oliver Frey collaboration from beyond the grave .... can it?
Lady Waldrop's Notes; ostensibly a micro-review of Alice Vernon's Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the stories we tell about it ("Reasonably priced so definitely not at academic study"); includes examples of hypnogogic hallucination in the ghost stories of M.R. James and from the lives of Ro and friends.
Carole Tyrrell - Wunderkammer: 1880s. True to his vow, Joffrey, twenty-year-old heir to his father's title and fortune, returns home from his Grand Tour with an impressive addition to the family cabinet of macabre curiosities ("not for the ladies or servants to see") — the ghost of a beggar girl slain to purpose in the catacombs of Rome. On his inheritance, Joffrey marries Cora, the village beauty, for no better reason than that everyone else fancies her. The ghost is sorely displeased at this development. When she proves a menace, Joffrey orders the Wunderkammer room sealed shut with her inside.
Two World Wars later, the Priory passes into the hands of a self-made millionaire, who, on learning of this "wondrous room" gets to thinking that it may contain items of great value ...
Robbie Porter - Mannerly: The Architectural Digest for 15 December 1954 reports the sad, unexplained death of young Kingsley Bannerman while researching Victorian improvements to the crypt of Mannerley parish church, Worcester. Journal entries record his accidental discovery of a tragedy in the Austrian Alps and the subsequent malicious haunting of Sir John Beckingham by the ghost of despised first wife, Lady Sybil. "They say that if she ever catches your eye, then she'll claim you for her own."
TBC. The stories are exceptional (one more to follow). We can only hope that someday, all the G&S original fiction will be compiled in a massive Omnibus anthology.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Nov 22, 2023 18:11:47 GMT
We can only hope that someday, all the G&S original fiction will be compiled in a massive Omnibus anthology. Couldn't agree more. So that's at least two copies it'd sell. |
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Post by Swampirella on Nov 22, 2023 18:14:14 GMT
Make that three.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Nov 22, 2023 21:38:44 GMT
There's over 200 stories! |
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Post by Swampirella on Nov 22, 2023 21:42:13 GMT
So well worth compiling into one volume, assuming they hope to sell many more than 3 copies to denizens of the Vault
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Post by dem bones on Nov 23, 2023 7:47:47 GMT
I'm sure the idea's been mentioned before. Assuming Ro were up for it, an obvious stumbling block would be negotiating a copyright minefield — the first issue was published in 1979 (has any other UK 'zine — no matter the genre — lasted as long?). As to how many copies it would shift. My guess would be loads. Marion Pitman - Incident in a Bookshop: An original of the fabled, Liber nigrae peregrinationis (Stockholm, n.d., c. 1657; see also Count Magnus) brings misfortune to those unfortunate enough to have unwittingly acquired it. Narrator Kat considers her career options following a bizarre encounter with a recovering bookshop assistant. If you can imagine Weird Things Customers say in Bookshops — The Ghost Story ... |
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Post by andydecker on Nov 23, 2023 12:08:07 GMT
So well worth compiling into one volume, assuming they hope to sell many more than 3 copies to denizens of the Vault Make this 4 :-) |
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