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Post by ropardoe on Feb 25, 2020 12:20:38 GMT
The new Ghosts & Scholars (38) has just gone to the printer. I'm happy to say that the first in the sequence of guest editors, our own James Doig, has done an excellent job.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Feb 26, 2020 9:50:32 GMT
The new Ghosts & Scholars (38) has just gone to the printer. I'm happy to say that the first in the sequence of guest editors, our own James Doig, has done an excellent job. It's at the printer? When I renewed my subscription Mark Valentine told me it would be ready around May! |
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Post by ropardoe on Feb 26, 2020 14:35:34 GMT
The new Ghosts & Scholars (38) has just gone to the printer. I'm happy to say that the first in the sequence of guest editors, our own James Doig, has done an excellent job. It's at the printer? When I renewed my subscription Mark Valentine told me it would be ready around May! I think he was just being careful not to promise too much! Nevertheless, everyone has been very speedy about it - I wasn't really expecting it to be out till early April at the soonest (as opposed to around mid-March). 44 pages, three stories, the start of an important new series of articles, a big reviews section - oh, and my first column! |
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 26, 2020 20:07:42 GMT
It's at the printer? When I renewed my subscription Mark Valentine told me it would be ready around May! I think he was just being careful not to promise too much! Nevertheless, everyone has been very speedy about it - I wasn't really expecting it to be out till early April at the soonest (as opposed to around mid-March). 44 pages, three stories, the start of an important new series of articles, a big reviews section - oh, and my first column![/quote] Our call out for submissions got a great response, so it filled up quite quickly, with some promised stories/articles still to come for Antonio's issue later in the year. |
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Post by piglingbland on Feb 27, 2020 9:23:09 GMT
Great news! Look forward to #38!!
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Post by ropardoe on Mar 7, 2020 9:27:10 GMT
The copies were delivered to Mark Valentine last night and the mail-out has started even as we speak. It looks good - and definitely still looks like G&S!
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Post by Michael Connolly on Mar 7, 2020 13:19:33 GMT
The copies were delivered to Mark Valentine last night and the mail-out has started even as we speak. It looks good - and definitely still looks like G&S! And it's back on schedule! I'm assuming that it wasn't printed in Australia. |
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Post by ropardoe on Mar 7, 2020 17:05:01 GMT
The copies were delivered to Mark Valentine last night and the mail-out has started even as we speak. It looks good - and definitely still looks like G&S! And it's back on schedule! I'm assuming that it wasn't printed in Australia. No, still using the same Chester printer. |
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Post by dem bones on Mar 9, 2020 15:54:42 GMT
Very well done, James! Thanks also to Ro and Darroll, Mark & Jo. Am looking forward to reading/ commenting on this one. James Doig [ed.] - Ghosts & Scholars #38 (Haunted Library, March 2020) Cover illustration Dan McGachey Martin's CloseContemporary advertisement for the 'Cheylesmore' sociable tricycle used by M.R. James in 1884. Image courtesy of Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. James Doig - Editorial
James Doig - M.R. James News
Rick Kennett - Jamesian Podcasts #8
Ro Pardoe - Lady Wardrop's Notes
Fiction
C. J. Faraday - The Advent Visitor
Margaret Payne - The Snows of Yesteryear
Katherine Haynes - The Stalls of Barchester Theatre
Articles
Jim Bryant - In the Tracks of M. R. James: Series Introduction
In the Tracks of M. R. James 1: By Double Tricycle to Auxerre 22 June - 11 July 1884
Jamesian Notes & Queries
Norman Darwen - Yew or Ash?
Reviews
Tartan Terror: Robert Lloyd Parry at Interpeffray, Nov. 2019 (reviewed by Helen Grant)
Martin's Close by M. R. James : A Ghost Story for Christmas (reviewed by C. E. Ward)
Martin's Close by M. R. James : A Ghost Story for Christmas (reviewed by Dan McGachey)
When Shadows Gather by Mark Chislett (reviewed by David Harris)
Legionnaire by C. E. Ward (reviewed by Antonio Monteiro)
Green Tea by J. S. Le Fanu (reviewed by Patrick Petterson)
The Pale Illuminations: Stories by Peter Bell, Mark Valentine, Reggie Oliver & Derek John ed. Robert Morgan (reviewed by Roger Johnson) |
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Post by humgoo on Mar 9, 2020 16:51:43 GMT
Martin's Close by M. R. James : A Ghost Story for Christmas (reviewed by C. E. Ward) Martin's Close by M. R. James : A Ghost Story for Christmas (reviewed by Dan McGachey) Have been expecting this! Can't wait to read the double review! |
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Post by ropardoe on Mar 9, 2020 19:44:29 GMT
Martin's Close by M. R. James : A Ghost Story for Christmas (reviewed by C. E. Ward) Martin's Close by M. R. James : A Ghost Story for Christmas (reviewed by Dan McGachey) Have been expecting this! Can't wait to read the double review! Not quite as variant in their opinions as I'd hoped (both liked it), but still good stuff. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Mar 9, 2020 20:06:39 GMT
Thanks Kev! Needless to say I had a lot of help. I thought Dan's cover illo was great. You'd also have to be pretty good mates with the person you chose to ride that tricycle with - you'd be in each other's pocket for days on end. I think there are also a couple more reviews - of Clive Ward's Legionnaire and of the Swan River Press edition of Green Tea. |
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Post by dem bones on Mar 9, 2020 21:22:26 GMT
I think there are also a couple more reviews - of Clive Ward's Legionnaire and of the Swan River Press edition of Green Tea. I do apologise! Have fixed original post. |
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Mar 10, 2020 13:11:53 GMT
Received my copies last night. Looks great, and I'm looking forward to delving into the contents properly in the next few days.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Mar 10, 2020 13:33:06 GMT
Very well done, James! Thanks also to Ro and Darroll, Mark & Jo. Am looking forward to reading/ commenting on this one. James Doig [ed.] - Ghosts & Scholars #38 (Haunted Library, March 2020) Cover illustration Dan McGachey Martin's CloseContemporary advertisement for the 'Cheylesmore' sociable tricycle used by M.R. James in 1884. Image courtesy of Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. James Doig - Editorial
James Doig - M.R. James News
Rick Kennett - Jamesian Podcasts #8
Ro Pardoe - Lady Wardrop's Notes
Fiction
C. J. Faraday - The Advent Visitor
Margaret Payne - The Snows of Yesteryear
Katherine Haynes - The Stalls of Barchester Theatre
Articles
Jim Bryant - In the Tracks of M. R. James: Series Introduction
In the Tracks of M. R. James 1: By Double Tricycle to Auxerre 22 June - 11 July 1884
Jamesian Notes & Queries
Norman Darwen - Yew or Ash?
Reviews
Tartan Terror: Robert Lloyd Parry at Interpeffray, Nov. 2019 (reviewed by Helen Grant)
Martin's Close by M. R. James : A Ghost Story for Christmas (reviewed by C. E. Ward)
Martin's Close by M. R. James : A Ghost Story for Christmas (reviewed by Dan McGachey)
When Shadows Gather by Mark Chislett (reviewed by David Harris)
Legionnaire by C. E. Ward (reviewed by Antonio Monteiro)
Green Tea by J. S. Le Fanu (reviewed by Patrick Petterson)
The Pale Illuminations: Stories by Peter Bell, Mark Valentine, Reggie Oliver & Derek John ed. Robert Morgan (reviewed by Roger Johnson)After a horrible day (and I just don't mean the weather) I came home to my copy of Ghosts & Scholars 38 yesterday evening. I've only flipped through it, but the amount of MRJ-related news and reviews of theatrical and television adaptations etc proves the need for Ghosts & Scholars. The front cover is the Lurker's best yet. The ''Cheylesmore'' Sociable Tricycle on the back cover looks like a prototype potato planting machine. |
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