Tag archive: M.R. James
Horror Bits and Nasty Bobs
Given the current global financial apocalypse I assume that most of you are now eating shoe leather for dinner, wailing yourselves to sleep in damp & draughty cardboard boxes, and shaking your sore-encrusted fists at an indifferent god. While I… continue reading »
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 1: It begins…(again)
I say: Come, dear friends. Come and pull your chairs, stools and (noncombustible) beanbags closer to our fire – for tonight we will have much need of its warmth. But wait! Was that a gnarled face I saw flash at… continue reading »
Give a Little Whistle (and do your homework)
The Dreadful Thoughts project begins (like a cauldron of hot blood) to bubble and fizz most satisfactorily – with my comrade Sinéad rallying the troops over at The Sigla Blog. For the first of the reborn (Hallelujah!) Story Club’s homework… continue reading »
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club: Casting the Runes
2) “Casting The Ruins (pdf), (html) The path by which I came to know and (greatly) enjoy M. R. James was a rather long and meandering one. Many years ago (and late one night) while my brother and I idly… continue reading »
Continuing to think Dreadful Thoughts
Like most sensible people I loathe and abhor Mondays. Mondays take my weekend jauntiness and kick it in the face – before setting fire to it and throwing it down the cellar stairs. By way of tribute (or, actually, whatever… continue reading »
