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Post by ropardoe on Sept 18, 2020 9:57:45 GMT
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Post by Michael Connolly on Sept 18, 2020 11:47:46 GMT
I got my copy this morning. While its envelope had already been roughly opened nothing (like runes etc) seems to have been added to it.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Sept 18, 2020 11:50:48 GMT
I got my copy this morning. While its envelope had already been roughly opened nothing (like runes etc) seems to have been added to it. Mine arrived too, and the envelope was also in a bad way - split almost entirely down the side. The issue itself seems undamaged, but I really should check that nothing has crept in... or, indeed, crept out...
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Post by Michael Connolly on Sept 18, 2020 12:00:35 GMT
I got my copy this morning. While its envelope had already been roughly opened nothing (like runes etc) seems to have been added to it. Mine arrived too, and the envelope was also in a bad way - split almost entirely down the side. The issue itself seems undamaged, but I really should check that nothing has crept in... or, indeed, crept out... We're not paranoid. The Royal Mail has caught on to us.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 19, 2020 10:23:31 GMT
António Monteiro [ed.] - Ghosts & Scholars # 39 (Haunted Library, Sept. 2020) António Monteiro - Editorial Ro Pardoe - M.R. James News Rick Kennett - Jamesian Podcasts #12 Ro Pardoe - Lady Wardrop's Notes
Fiction Robbie Porter - The Lady Chapel Carole Tyrell - Butterflies Victoria Day - Water'd with Blood
Articles Jim Bryant - In the Tracks of M. R. James 2: Return to Burgundy: Dates 9 - 25 April 1897 Benjamin Harris - "It May Have Been the Trail." Jamesian certainties (and uncertainties) in John Gordon's The House on the Brink Peter Bell - Ghost Stories of a Norfolk Parson
Jamesian Notes & Queries Martin Voracek - Possible Inspirational Sources for M.R. James from German Romanticism?
Reviews The Dark and What it Said: and In Quinn's Paddock by Rick Kennett (reviewed by Helen Kemp) England's Screaming by Sean Hogan (reviewed by Daniel McGachey) The Haunting of M.R. James. Produced and Presented by Chris Halton and Ursula Bielski. Filmed and Directed by Jason Figgis. Haunted Earth Films, 2019 (Reviewed by Andy Sawyer).Arrived this morning - will try do justice to this one! Many thanks to Ro Pardoe, Mark and Jo Valentine, and well done to António Monteiro and all contributors.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Sept 21, 2020 10:48:46 GMT
António Monteiro [ed.] - Ghosts & Scholars # 39 (Haunted Library, Sept. 2020) António Monteiro - Editorial António Monteiro - M.R. James News Rick Kennett - Jamesian Podcasts #12 Ro Pardoe - Lady Wardrop's Notes
Fiction Robbie Porter - The Lady Chapel Carole Tyrell - Butterflies Victoria Day - Water'd with Blood
Articles Jim Bryant - In the Tracks of M. R. James 2: Return to Burgundy: Dates 9 - 25 April 1897 Benjamin Harris - "It May Have Been the Trail." Jamesian certainties (and uncertainties) in John Gordon's The House on the Brink Peter Bell - Ghost Stories of a Norfolk Parson
Jamesian Notes & Queries Martin Voracek - Possible Inspirational Sources for M.R. James from German Romanticism?
Reviews The Dark and What it Said: and In Quinn's Paddock by Rick Kennett (reviewed by Helen Kemp) England's Screaming by Sean Hogan (reviewed by Daniel McGachey) The Haunting of M.R. James. Produced and Presented by Chris Halton and Ursula Bielski. Filmed and Directed by Jason Figgis. Haunted Earth Films, 2019 (Reviewed by Andy Sawyer).Arrived this morning - will try do justice to this one! Many thanks to Ro Pardoe, Mark and Jo Valentine, and well done to António Monteiro and all contributors. The most interesting piece so far is "Water'd with Blood" by Victoria Day, an accomplished sequel to, investigation of, and explanation for "The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral" (the original story and the BBC version). It features "The D-v-l himself" (a good touch) and ends on a note that more could come (which I hope does).
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Post by cantoris on Sept 21, 2020 11:02:17 GMT
My envelope was completely open down the long edge too! Contents still in-place fortunately.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Sept 21, 2020 12:38:00 GMT
My envelope was completely open down the long edge too! Contents still in-place fortunately. I blame Donald Trump. But he'll deny it.
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Post by David A. Riley on Sept 21, 2020 13:33:47 GMT
My envelope was completely open down the long edge too! Contents still in-place fortunately. Perhaps someone up there suspects that Ghosts & Scholars is a front for some sort of nefarious organisation... Anyway, I have now ordered my copy and hope it arrives intact!
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Post by ropardoe on Sept 21, 2020 15:42:10 GMT
My envelope was completely open down the long edge too! Contents still in-place fortunately. Perhaps someone up there suspects that Ghosts & Scolars is a frtont for some sort of nefarious organisation... Anyway, I have now ordered my copy and hope it arrives intact! It’s a fair cop, guv.
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Post by David A. Riley on Sept 23, 2020 12:47:26 GMT
Perhaps someone up there suspects that Ghosts & Scolars is a frtont for some sort of nefarious organisation... Anyway, I have now ordered my copy and hope it arrives intact! It’s a fair cop, guv. My copy arrived safe and sound in the post today, though its envelope too had been opened along the top edge. Most peculiar! But at lkeast my copy of Ghosts & Scholars 39 was not damaged. Great Jim Pitts illos on the front and back covers! Will get my old reading glasses out later so I can read the rather small print.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Sept 23, 2020 15:50:54 GMT
its envelope too had been opened along the top edge. They just remove the anthrax spores, for your protection. Personally I am all for it.
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Post by andydecker on Sept 23, 2020 16:30:25 GMT
Or maybe something wanted in ...
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Post by dem bones on Sept 23, 2020 17:59:10 GMT
The most interesting piece so far is "Water'd with Blood" by Victoria Day, an accomplished sequel to, investigation of, and explanation for "The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral" (the original story and the BBC version). It features "The D-v-l himself" (a good touch) and ends on a note that more could come (which I hope does). I liked all three. Daren't comment on Vickie Day's until I've re-read The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral (tonight, with a bit of luck). Must say, I think the too modest António has made a marvellous job on the issue. Robbie Porter - The Lady Chapel: "Detestable heresies and utterly to be condemned." Horrible haunting of Canon Wesley by the ghost of Bishop Edmondstone, burned alive before his Cathedral for refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, decides him to resign his post. Carole Tyrell - Butterflies: Church champing enthusiast Martin Wyatt is delighted to receive an invitation to camp out overnight in the decomissioned St. Barnabus at Wildwick St Mary. His attention is drawn to a tilted headstone along the pathway. "Here lyeth Katherine and her five sisters Murdered and dyed 10 July 1616." That night he will learn about Katherine, one of six village beauties who modelled for the wood carvings of angels adorning the church ceiling. Flighty by nature, Katherine seduced and fell pregnant by Father Gregory, who, fearful his shame be discovered, denounced the girl and her teasing entourage to the local witch finder. Condemned to hang in the Market Square, Katherine met her death protesting her innocence and promising: "We will have our revenge, priest, Unto the last generation." Martin is soon to bitterly regret his choice of harmless hobby.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Sept 24, 2020 12:38:37 GMT
My copy arrived safe and sound in the post today, though its envelope too had been opened along the top edge. Most peculiar! But at lkeast my copy of Ghosts & Scholars 39 was not damaged. Great Jim Pitts illos on the front and back covers! Will get my old reading glasses out later so I can read the rather small print. Maybe Mark Valentine is the real Yorkshire Ripper!
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