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Post by Dr Strange on Dec 15, 2010 14:11:43 GMT
So are they renaming it And I'll come for you my lad? If only it were that simple... it seems the whistle maguffin has been replaced by a ring. I leave the innuendo door wide open.
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Post by cw67q on Dec 16, 2010 18:08:09 GMT
About all things Jamesian, Rosemary Pardoe has reactivated her Ghosts & Scholars website. For anyone interested, she has told me that she has a couple of copies of her THE ANGRY DEAD at £5.00 at postage. You can contact her via the website: www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pardos/GS.html Thanks for that, this is welcome news - chris
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Post by dem bones on May 23, 2013 7:13:57 GMT
Carter Dickson - Blind Man's Hood: "It happened out in the hall there. A poor woman was killed where there was no one to kill her, and no-one could have done it. But she was murdered."
John Dickson Carr's supernatural variation on his beloved locked room mystery. Christmas eve at 'Clearlawns', a remote Seventeenth Century country house in the Weald of Kent. Rodney Hunter, an author of detective novels, arrives with wife Muriel in the early evening to prepare a party for their friend, Jack Bannister. They find the front door ajar, a fire in the grate, and no sign of the housekeeper or maids. A strange, plump girl in a brown dress emerges from the library and explains that even the servants give Clearlawns a wide berth between seven and eight on December 24th as it is the anniversary of an incident relating to a particularly appalling murder. The victim, Jane Waycross had her throat slit and her clothes were set ablaze, leaving a nice charred corpse for old Mrs. Randall to trip over. It was evident that Mrs. Waycross crawled some distance before she died. Suspicion fell on her ex, Jeremy Wilkes, a man of evil repute. The remnants of a love letter indicated that Mrs. Waycross was still carried a torch for him, but Wilkes had a cast iron alibi and was never charged.
Hunter wonders if the girl is deranged. How can she speak of these matters with such authority when they happened several decades before she was born, and what's with that weird thing she does with her eyelid? Also, according to their hostess, the alleged murder took place in February 187-, so why the hoo-hah over tonight? 'I'm glad you asked that,' thinks the girl, who goes on to relate events of the Christmas party at Clearlawns in 1875 ....
Delightful as it is, Blind Man's Hood strikes me as an odd choice for Ghosts & Scholars, as, bar the odd touch ("But when he pulled the curtain back, he did not see anything in the bay - at least, anything quite. He felt some hair, and it moved ...") it's not particularly Jamesian.
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Post by Swampirella on Jan 27, 2017 17:32:11 GMT
Richard Dalby & Rosemary Pardoe (eds.) - Ghosts and Scholars: Ghost Stories In The Tradition Of M. R. James (Crucible, 1987) Foreword - Michael Cox Introduction - Rosemary Pardoe & Richard Dalby M. R. James - Ghosts-Treat Them Gently
Sabine Baring-Gould - On the Leads ‘B’ - The Stone Coffin A.C. Benson - The Slype House R. Hugh Benson - Father Macclesfield’s Tale Cecil Binney - The Saint and the Vicar Sir Andrew Caldecott - Christmas Reunion Ramsey Campbell - This Time Patrick Carleton - Dr Horder’s Room Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) - Blind Man’s Hood Frederick Cowles - The Strange Affair at Upton Strangewold ‘Ingulphus’ (Arthur Gray) - Brother John’s Bequest Sheila Hodgson - ‘Come, Follow!’ M. R. James - Ghost Story Competition Winifred Galbraith - ‘Here He Lies Where He Longed to Be’ Emma S. Duffin - The House-Party A. F. Kidd - An Incident in the City Shane Leslie - As In a Glass Dimly R. H. Malden - Between Sunset and Moonrise L. T. C. Rolt - New Corner David G. Rowlands - Sins of the Fathers Eleanor Scott - Celui-La Arnold Smith - The Face in the Fresco Dermot Chesson Spence - The Dean’s Bargain Lewis Spence - The Horn of Vapula Montague Summers - The Grimoire E. G. Swain - The Eastern Window
Select BibliographyBlurb: Country-house libraries ... forlorn churches ... quiet college quadrangles and damp cathedral crypts ... a world where lurking supernatural evil is ever ready to pounce on the innocent, the guilty, or the merely curious ... where gentlemen scholars and studious clerics pay the price of their fascination with the past ... 25 chilling and salutary tales written in the tradition of M. R. James, acknowledged master of the antiquarian ghost story ....
Cover illustrations: (front) based on a view of King's College, Cambridge, c.1890; (back) M. R. James in 1895. As with Rosemary Pardoe's excellent small press publication of the same name, Ghosts & Scholars traces the influence of M. R. James upon his contemporaries right through to present day masters like Ramsey Campbell and the criminally underrated David G. Rowlands. Frederick Cowles is as near as it gets to pulp and there’s little by way of gore and violence, nor are too many crabs known to rampage through these crypts and Cathedrals. What these stories have to offer is an undeniable shuddersome quality courtesy of the many mouldering revenants who show themselves to the usual array of hapless antiquarians, and, unlikely as it seems, the Patrick Carleton story actually originates from Birkin's Creeps. I came across and enjoyed The Face In The Fresco a short while ago www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pardos/ArchiveFresco.html
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Post by Shrink Proof on Jan 27, 2017 23:34:30 GMT
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Post by Swampirella on Jan 28, 2017 0:19:45 GMT
You're welcome, so did I! I'm in the middle of another good freebie which I also attached elsewhere "The Kit-Bag" by Algernon Blackwood.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Mar 11, 2017 14:07:07 GMT
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Post by ropardoe on Mar 11, 2017 15:58:25 GMT
Yikes! And Cold Tonnage is the most reputable and reasonable dealer I know, so I guess that must be the going rate.
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Post by elricc on Mar 11, 2017 16:06:26 GMT
I have a copy, but a while ago I was in a book shop in Cromer and found another (signed by Richard Dalby as well) for £5.. woo hoo
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Post by Michael Connolly on Mar 13, 2017 11:11:15 GMT
Going by the prices on Bookfinder.com (the best website to check going rates), £150.00 is a snip for the hardcover Ghost and Scholars. Copies of the paperback edition ( Ghosts & Scholars) are also very expensive. Why did the hardcover not use the proper ampersand?
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Post by ropardoe on Mar 13, 2017 11:30:17 GMT
Going by the prices on Bookfinder.com (the best website to check going rates), £150.00 is a snip for the hardcover Ghost and Scholars. Copies of the paperback edition ( Ghosts & Scholars) are also very expensive. Why did the hardcover not use the proper ampersand? I don't know, but the book was supposed to be a separate entity and not a spin-off from the magazine, so maybe that's the explanation. It's handy though as now it makes it easy to differentiate: when I refer to Ghosts & Scholars I mean the magazine, and when I refer to Ghosts and Scholars I always mean the book.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Mar 13, 2017 11:32:23 GMT
Going by the prices on Bookfinder.com (the best website to check going rates), £150.00 is a snip for the hardcover Ghost and Scholars. Copies of the paperback edition ( Ghosts & Scholars) are also very expensive. Why did the hardcover not use the proper ampersand? I don't know, but the book was supposed to be a separate entity and not a spin-off from the magazine, so maybe that's the explanation. It's handy though as now it makes it easy to differentiate: when I refer to Ghosts & Scholars I mean the magazine, and when I refer to Ghosts and Scholars I always mean the book. But how many copies of the book did you keep?
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Post by ropardoe on Mar 13, 2017 11:35:12 GMT
I don't know, but the book was supposed to be a separate entity and not a spin-off from the magazine, so maybe that's the explanation. It's handy though as now it makes it easy to differentiate: when I refer to Ghosts & Scholars I mean the magazine, and when I refer to Ghosts and Scholars I always mean the book. But how many copies of the book did you keep? Until recently just one copy of the hardcover and none of the paperback. I've recently acquired a copy of the paperback but I think I'll be giving it away shortly.
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Post by ropardoe on May 4, 2017 18:40:44 GMT
Very sad news: Richard Dalby has died. Mark Valentine has put a nice obituary on the Wormwoodiana blog. Despite co-editing the Ghosts and Scholars book with Richard, I didn't know him well. In fact I think I only met him once (although we corresponded many times over the years and he often contributed to G&S). But there's no question that his has been one of the greatest recent names in the world of supernatural fiction anthologies.
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Post by helrunar on May 4, 2017 20:25:08 GMT
Sad news. My condolences to those who knew him.
I forget how or why but in the mid 1970s I owned the cloth edition of The Sorceress in Stained Glass. I had completely forgotten about the book (like many others I once owned) until I saw a notice about it on here a couple of weeks ago while trawling through some of the older boards.
May his spirit fly free.
H.
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