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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 22, 2018 12:41:39 GMT
Thanks. I don't need to read it now! There's nothing in that synopsis that isn't revealed in the opening stages of the story. How much do you want for your copy of Shades of Darkness?
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Oct 22, 2018 13:20:26 GMT
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 22, 2018 13:40:28 GMT
Don't rub it in. I've already checked the prices for it. Also, I've just tried to e-mail Ash-Tree Press. Its e-mail address is as defunct as its website that was up last week!
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Post by Swampirella on Oct 22, 2018 14:02:13 GMT
Oh no, not Ashtree Press!
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 22, 2018 14:10:31 GMT
Oh no, not Ashtree Press! It's up in smoke.
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Post by Swampirella on Oct 22, 2018 14:14:48 GMT
Sad that another small press is gone One of the affordable ones, too.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 22, 2018 14:31:53 GMT
Even though "In Vitro" sounds like "Count Magnus" all over again, it's because it was written by Michael Cox who did so much good work for M.R. James (his biography is sitting beside this computer right now) and ghost stories in general that I really want to read it now.
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Post by ropardoe on Oct 22, 2018 15:12:20 GMT
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Post by Swampirella on Oct 22, 2018 15:34:31 GMT
I see, that would explain it, somewhat anyhow....
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Post by jamesdoig on Oct 22, 2018 19:40:23 GMT
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 24, 2018 12:06:59 GMT
I spoke to Barbara Roden once (about Carnacki the Ghost Finder). She didn't sound political to me.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Apr 12, 2021 11:54:46 GMT
He was a class act for sure, one of those blessed people who could pull off academic without being in the least stuffy as i'm sure lurker will agree. The Oxford Ghost books he co-edited and the Illustrated J. S. Le Fanu he compiled for the doomed Equation were my favourites, but i'm also extremely fond of his MRJ biography. Incredibly, i picked up my copy for 20p, withdrawn from Plaistow library when they were having a clear out. Takes you back, doesn't it? libraries that actually stocked books. And it was only eight years ago. Good luck with reviving haunted bookshelf in his honour, Chris. 20p! While I like Michael Cox's chapter on the ghost stories in M.R. James: An Informal Portrait, his introduction to Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories (Oxford World's Classics) is better, being more analytical. It seems that even the paperback edition of An Informal Portrait was never reprinted, which seems even more unlikely now due to Darryl Jones's upcoming biography also from Oxford University Press.
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