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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 1, 2018 12:26:27 GMT
Whoever these people are who recommend such macabre fare, it worked... A copy of The Companion has been ordered and is eagerly anticipated. It's for kids!
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Oct 1, 2018 14:24:32 GMT
Whoever these people are who recommend such macabre fare, it worked... A copy of The Companion has been ordered and is eagerly anticipated. It's for kids! So are many terrific ghost stories. Besides, I am young at heart... it's just everything else that's the problem.
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Post by ropardoe on Oct 1, 2018 16:39:12 GMT
So are many terrific ghost stories. Besides, I am young at heart... it's just everything else that's the problem. Yes... John Gordon and Robert Westall are the first to spring to mind. Same is true of a lot of the best vintage TV.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Oct 1, 2018 17:32:19 GMT
So are many terrific ghost stories. Besides, I am young at heart... it's just everything else that's the problem. Yes... John Gordon and Robert Westall are the first to spring to mind. Same is true of a lot of the best vintage TV. Gordon and Westall were the first to spring to my mind, too, followed closely by Lucy Boston and Chris Priestley and Joan Aiken, Alan Garner, Phillipa Pearce, Mary Danby and many more... including M.R. James, when we come to stories like Wailing Well, of course. And, yes, a lot of the archive TV I have in my collection is the kind of horror that was a staple part of kids' television throughout the '70s and early '80s.
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Post by helrunar on Oct 1, 2018 17:47:46 GMT
Thanks, Daniel, for mentioning Lucy Boston. It's too bad the book An Enemy at Green Knowe wasn't dramatized in the 1970s or 1980s in the UK. It would have made a fabulous serial.
cheers, Steve
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Oct 1, 2018 18:01:21 GMT
Thanks, Daniel, for mentioning Lucy Boston. It's too bad the book An Enemy at Green Knowe wasn't dramatized in the 1970s or 1980s in the UK. It would have made a fabulous serial. cheers, Steve I haven't actually read the Greene Knowe books, though I did enjoy the film From Time to Time which is adapted from one of them. I mainly know Lucy Boston from her brilliant Jamesian story Curfew, which I first read in an anthology of 'eerie tales' for children, and through the collection of her short ghost stories Swan River put out a few years ago. I really should try the Green Knowe books at some point. I always think of John Gordon's The House on the Brink as the best children's serial HTV never made in the mid-70s.
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Post by ropardoe on Oct 2, 2018 8:42:36 GMT
Thanks, Daniel, for mentioning Lucy Boston. It's too bad the book An Enemy at Green Knowe wasn't dramatized in the 1970s or 1980s in the UK. It would have made a fabulous serial. cheers, Steve I haven't actually read the Greene Knowe books, though I did enjoy the film From Time to Time which is adapted from one of them. I mainly know Lucy Boston from her brilliant Jamesian story Curfew, which I first read in an anthology of 'eerie tales' for children, and through the collection of her short ghost stories Swan River put out a few years ago. I really should try the Green Knowe books at some point. I always think of John Gordon's The House on the Brink as the best children's serial HTV never made in the mid-70s. Oh, wouldn't that have been wonderful? And I agree about "Curfew": it's one of the best Jamesian stories ever.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Oct 2, 2018 12:37:00 GMT
The Companion has arrived, and as A Ghosts & Scholars Book of Folk Horror is evidently still making its way toward me, I'll be starting on Mr Staig's book as soon as I finish The Watcher in the Tower, which I bought after reading its write up in G&S 34 - having previously been put off by its original subtitle, which was something like 'A ghost story not written by M.R. James', and its page of fictitious reviews from made-up journals. I'm enjoying the story, though the formatting of the paperback through Amazon's print on demand service is very off-putting - text is clear and legible enough, but each page has a massive white border at the top and on the right side. A pity, as it's a decent enough read and wryly amusing in the right places.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Aug 8, 2022 18:58:29 GMT
The Editorial in Ghosts & Scholars 4 cites the potential publication of a study of M.R. James’s stories, From the Corner of My Eye by Laurence Staig. What happened to it? Ghosts & Scholars 4 also contains a story, “The Poor Nun of Burtisford”, by the Reverend William Fairlie Clarke. The first one and a half sentences shocked me. “It came about in this way. Cyril Trollope and I had long promised ourselves the pleasure of a tramp together in the Cotswolds [!]”. The dirty beasts! This is from a Rev! A Trollope indeed! I will scrutinise all other issues of Ghosts & Scholars for muck. It looks like it's too late to clean up the upcoming Ghosts & Scholars 34. I've just plagiarized myself with the above on the M.R. James Appreciation Society Facebook page. I've got my best reaction ever: m.facebook.com/groups/2343022578/permalink/10160144608692579/?m_entstream_source=feed_mobile&anchor_composer=false
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Aug 8, 2022 19:02:47 GMT
The Editorial in Ghosts & Scholars 4 cites the potential publication of a study of M.R. James’s stories, From the Corner of My Eye by Laurence Staig. What happened to it? Ghosts & Scholars 4 also contains a story, “The Poor Nun of Burtisford”, by the Reverend William Fairlie Clarke. The first one and a half sentences shocked me. “It came about in this way. Cyril Trollope and I had long promised ourselves the pleasure of a tramp together in the Cotswolds [!]”. The dirty beasts! This is from a Rev! A Trollope indeed! I will scrutinise all other issues of Ghosts & Scholars for muck. It looks like it's too late to clean up the upcoming Ghosts & Scholars 34. I've just plagiarized myself with the above on the M.R. James Appreciation Society Facebook page. I've got mynbest reaction ever: m.facebook.com/groups/2343022578/permalink/10160144608692579/?m_entstream_source=feed_mobile&anchor_composer=falseThat group is private. Nevertheless, I fainted.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Aug 8, 2022 19:03:53 GMT
That group is private. Nevertheless, I fainted. So did the tramp.
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