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Post by dem bones on Oct 20, 2007 10:55:30 GMT
This was the second issue: Rosemary Pardoe (ed.) - More Ghosts And Scholars (1980)  Martin Helsdon: Casting The RunesFiction A.F. Kidd - Figures in a Landscape
David Sutton - Return to the Runes
David Rowlands - The Fifteenth Evening
Peter Shilston - The Catacomb
George Hay - All that Flies Articles: Richard Dalby - "Adrian Ross"/ Arthur R. Ropes: A Forgotten Disciple of M.R. James
Notes on the Authors and Artists
The James List (Additions) Reviews: Elegant Nightmares (Jack Sullivan)
M.R. James - Book of the Supernatural (Peter Haining)
The Seven Deadly Sins (Lanyon Jones) Artwork: Martin Helsdon, John Stewart, Stephen Jones, A. F. Kidd, Russ Nicholson, Dave Carson, David Lloyd, Jim Pitts. |
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Post by dem bones on Feb 16, 2015 23:43:04 GMT
"Still no number, and no plan to make a continuing series" writes Rosemary Pardoe in her introduction to The Best Of Ghosts & Scholars, which also reprints the Peter Shilston and David G. Rowlands stories.  Dave Carson: A tourist in Sicily is pursued through the crypt of a blasphemous church by the mouldering remains of a Medieval Bishop. David A. Sutton - Return To The Runes: As we learned in Casting The Runes, in 1889 John Harrington died in mysterious circumstances shortly after publishing a less than fulsome review of 'Abbot' Karswell's History Of Witchcraft. Fifteen years later the same Karswell was pursued to his doom by a demon when the hex he placed on a second hostile critic, Edward Dunning, rebounded. We join the action the following year when Philip Harrington, who, it must be said, strikes the reader as extremely naive, is contacted by a Mr. Adrian Marlowe, who claims to have information regarding his father's murder. A. F. Kidd - Figures in a Landscape: By way of a holiday, Mr Eddison, an aging solicitor, travels to the South of Ireland to enjoy a solitary walking tour. Stopping at a lakeside hostelry at St. Kevin's Bay, he finds the otherwise genial landlord strangely reticent in regard to the local church ruins, which, apparently, are best steered clear of. Soon Eddison wishes he'd taken heed of the fellow and thereby avoided his brush with the slimy damned entity referred to by the locals as "the beckoning monk"! George Hay - All that Flies: Earwigs, a family curse, space junk, and the lord of the flies. There's a connection of course, but it will require an instant rematch or two for me to take it all in. Notes on the Authors and Artists: Pen portraits of David G Rowlands, David A Sutton and Richard Dalby. The James List: Rosemary, David Rowlands and Richard Dalby flesh out Hugh Lamb's original with additional titles and bibliographical info. First mention of the Seabury Quinn 'Jamesian' stories! More Ghosts & Scholars is blessed with some of my favourite illustrations, notably those by John Stewart - Malden's Between Sunset And Sunrise and M. P. Dare's The Demoniacal Goat (looks just like you hoped) - and Dave Carson's depiction of the skeleton's encountered by Mr. Pearsall in The Catacombs. Stephen Jones' fine contribution would later resurface on the cover of David A Sutton's excellent On The Fringes For Thirty Years: A History Of Horror In The British Small Press |
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Oct 31, 2018 13:01:13 GMT
Well, it's a very ha-ha-happy Hallowe'en to me! For this morning, after over a decade and a half of searching, I've finally completed my collection of Ghosts & Scholars editions (at least those so far published, as here's hoping for many, many more to come) with the purchase of the - thus far - elusive second issue, More Ghosts & Scholars!
I suspect it's probably cursed with an ancient and unstoppable evil and, by adding it to my library, I shall doubtless unleash the spirits, demons, revenants and elementals currently lying dormant within the pages of practically every book and periodical, but it was only a matter of time before that happened anyway, I'm guessing...
I just hope it doesn't eat the postman before it reaches me!
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Post by Swampirella on Oct 31, 2018 14:12:06 GMT
Congratulations; here's hoping there's no curse!
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Post by helrunar on Oct 31, 2018 14:45:15 GMT
Congratulations, Daniel! I'm imagining a black paw suddenly emerging from the slim volume as it lies on the library table... who knows what hellish evil will ensue???
cheers! Steve
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 31, 2018 15:10:47 GMT
Congratulations, Daniel! I'm imagining a black paw suddenly emerging from the slim volume as it lies on the library table... who knows what hellish evil will ensue??? cheers! Steve I've had no trouble from my Ghosts & Scholars collection. I keep them in black corrugated rubber A4 box files (to grab if my house catches fire). |
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Post by Swampirella on Oct 31, 2018 15:13:02 GMT
Clearly, you're a man with his priorities straight!
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 31, 2018 15:19:47 GMT
Clearly, you're a man with his priorities straight! I've nothing to fear any more as the Lurker's collection is now complete! Also, I've already told Rosemary not to pass my address on to anybody. |
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Oct 31, 2018 15:53:18 GMT
I've nothing to fear any more as the Lurker's collection is now complete! Also, I've already told Rosemary not to pass my address on to anybody. Ah, there was never anything to fear there. The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral is ample warning that in these matters it is better not to hasten things along with any untoward actions, no matter how highly-sought the prize... |
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Post by ropardoe on Oct 31, 2018 16:20:45 GMT
Well, it's a very ha-ha-happy Hallowe'en to me! For this morning, after over a decade and a half of searching, I've finally completed my collection of Ghosts & Scholars editions (at least those so far published, as here's hoping for many, many more to come) with the purchase of the - thus far - elusive second issue, More Ghosts & Scholars! I suspect it's probably cursed with an ancient and unstoppable evil and, by adding it to my library, I shall doubtless unleash the spirits, demons, revenants and elementals currently lying dormant within the pages of practically every book and periodical, but it was only a matter of time before that happened anyway, I'm guessing... I just hope it doesn't eat the postman before it reaches me! Oh well, it's been nice knowing you! |
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