Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

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I knew where this one was going pretty much after the first paragraph, but I heartily enjoyed the ride. I told her he was unknown to me, and she said: 'But his book was right in front of us, you even picked it up. The book has been bound a little oddly so that the rear cover leaves about 2mm of the pages exposed at the edge.

With a contemporary ink inscription to the front free endpaper, dated December 25th 1911, and a Blackwell's bookseller's label to the front pastedown. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasize the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions.However, he is best remembered for his terrifying ghost stories, many of which were adapted for the BBC’s “A Ghost Story for Christmas” series. Some of these tales are very creepy indeed; but they are perfect for spending those long Winter evenings with (with a glass of something warming perhaps. Stephen Critchlow is a popular and versatile actor who has enjoyed a wide variety of work, including Hamlet and Pygmalion in The West End, Cyrano De Bergerac at The Royal National Theatre and playing Kenneth Horne in Round The Horne Revisited on Tour.

If you’re kind of a priggish and pedantic professor going on a holiday to sharpen upWith re-reading in later life, I’ve come to appreciate the steady pace and I’ve come to see that the “slowness” I perceived at first, was made up of text that is full of tiny suggestions, hints and clues as to what is to come. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions. They are certainly done by people with a love for the source material, and influenced, to a degree, by the BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas. Or, if I may borrow from another notable reviewer, "‘It’s really a very good piece of work, Williams; it has quite a feeling of the romantic period.

This careful, scholarly answer tells us a great deal about the creator of some of the greatest ghost stories in the English language.James' ghost stories were printed in general magazines in the 1890s and he was commissioned to publish this collection by Edward Arnold. Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) began writing ghost stories upon entering Cambridge in 1882 and quickly become known for his candlelit readings. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

James’s ghost stories were written, in the first place, to be heard, preferably in a cosy, dimly-lit room, with a reassuring glass of whisky or brandy close at hand.R. James: 'Number 13', 'Count Magnus', 'Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad' and 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas'.