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Post by ropardoe on Dec 11, 2021 11:58:28 GMT
Pop quiz: who's in the photo  What’s the date of this, by the way? Darned if I can remember. |
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Post by dem on Dec 11, 2021 12:11:34 GMT
Pop quiz: who's in the photo What’s the date of this, by the way? Darned if I can remember. I'm guessing it was taken at a BFS convention during Ramsey's presidency? |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Dec 11, 2021 12:57:17 GMT
What’s the date of this, by the way? Darned if I can remember. I'm guessing it was taken at a BFS convention during Ramsey's presidency? I think I saw this picture in an issue of All Hallows, probably from last century. |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 11, 2021 14:07:23 GMT
Pop quiz: who's in the photo It was from a BFS (whatever that is) lookalike contest. ropardoe won with her Angela Carter impression, Ramsey Campbell cheated and was disqualified, as he came as himself. |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 11, 2021 15:34:15 GMT
ropadoe the cover of the collection A Ghosts & Scholars Book of Folk Horror that you edited looks like one of the alleged hill figures that T. C. Lethbridge claimed to have found at the Gog Magog Hills near Cambridge.
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Post by ropardoe on Dec 11, 2021 15:48:06 GMT
ropadoe the cover of the collection A Ghosts & Scholars Book of Folk Horror that you edited looks like one of the alleged hill figures that T. C. Lethbridge claimed to have found at the Gog Magog Hills near Cambridge.
Yes, I was pleased that Paul Lowe chose to produce a sort of pseudo-Gogmagog giant for his cover illustration. I love Lethbridge’s book - I don’t believe it, but I love it. |
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Post by helrunar on Dec 11, 2021 16:40:46 GMT
T. C. Lethbridge was fabulous. Colin Wilson did a long section on him in the sequel to The Occult which had some title like Mysteries.
H.
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Post by helrunar on Dec 11, 2021 16:42:41 GMT
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 11, 2021 19:34:01 GMT
What’s the date of this, by the way? Darned if I can remember. Here you go - 25 years ago:  |
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Post by ropardoe on Dec 11, 2021 20:33:32 GMT
What’s the date of this, by the way? Darned if I can remember. Here you go - 25 years ago: Ah thanks. I’d never have remembered, though I suspected that it was around then. |
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Post by helrunar on Dec 12, 2021 4:01:55 GMT
Thanks for the very cool scan, James! I see that Hugh Lamb attended and discussed finding a 16 minute adaptation of "Mr Humphreys and his inheritance" done for a school program--I checked youtube and it's here, in case anyone besides me has never seen it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUUzM8sME_0Neat to hear about the talk on John Dickson Carr radio adaptations, too. H. |
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Dec 12, 2021 16:01:13 GMT
I see that Hugh Lamb attended and discussed finding a 16 minute adaptation of "Mr Humphreys and his inheritance" done for a school program This adaptation is now available on DVD alongside the other existing ITV M.R. James programmes, the 1979 Casting the Runes and the documentary A Pleasant Terror. But a few years before it became widely available, Hugh Lamb was generous enough to send me a VHS copy of the programme given to him by the adapter and director, Tony Scull. As I'd never actually met him, and I'd mainly written to him to ask for more details about the programme (I think I was toying with the idea of writing a book on MRJ adaptations at the time, so this was 'research'), so I was surprised and thrilled when a tape and a very encouraging letter arrived in the post. What a lovely, helpful man he was. Thanks to Hugh, who wrote about his re-discovery of the programme for an issue of Ghosts & Scholars, I also know that the maze in the production was in Roundhay Park in Leeds, but was chopped down not very long after the film was shot. This maze is also the subject of a short story by Jeremy Dyson in his book, Never Trust a Rabbit, while the tunnels in Roundhay Park figure prominently in Dyson and Andy Nyman's film of their stage play, Ghost Stories. And when the historical group The Friends of Roundhay Park were looking for photographs of the maze, as very few seem to exist, it was great to direct them to Mr Humphreys on YouTube. |
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Post by helrunar on Dec 12, 2021 16:07:44 GMT
That's all quite fascinating, Daniel!
Hugh Lamb seems as if he was such a sweet fellow. And how lovely that his son has carried on the tradition.
cheers, Steve
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Post by Shrink Proof on Dec 12, 2021 20:49:48 GMT
Thanks to Hugh, who wrote about his re-discovery of the programme for an issue of Ghosts & Scholars, I also know that the maze in the production was in Roundhay Park in Leeds, but was chopped down not very long after the film was shot. This maze is also the subject of a short story by Jeremy Dyson in his book, Never Trust a Rabbit, while the tunnels in Roundhay Park figure prominently in Dyson and Andy Nyman's film of their stage play, Ghost Stories. And when the historical group The Friends of Roundhay Park were looking for photographs of the maze, as very few seem to exist, it was great to direct them to Mr Humphreys on YouTube. In another of life's synchronicities, Roundhay Park in Leeds was regularly painted by John Atkinson Grimshaw (he of the spooky moonlight paintings), and his artwork features on the covers of several M R James collections, not to mention other volumes of ghost stories. This is "Tree Shadows on the Park Wall, Roundhay Park, Leeds". Apart from the moonlight, I think that one of the reasons his work sits so comfortably with Jamesian tales is that you can't tell whether the figures are static, wandering off or coming towards you....  |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 12, 2021 21:15:09 GMT
I used Grimshaw's The Lady of Shalott in a post on here.  He also did fairy paintings.  |
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