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George Daniel Lea, Elliot Chapman, and I, discuss another film in our Folk Horror series, and oh yeah this is one of the big ones. We're tackling one third of the now canonical 1970s British 'Folk Horror Trilogy', Piers Haggard and Robert Wynne-Simmons' frail behemoth Blood on Satan's Claw (Tigon, 1

Continuing a consideration of ‘The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral’ by M.R. James and its BBC television adaptation by Lawrence Gordon Clark. Continuing a consideration of ‘The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral’ by M.R. James and its BBC television adaptation by Lawrence Gordon Clark. Here is Part 1 of

On ‘The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral’ by M.R. James and its BBC television adaptation by Lawrence Gordon Clark - Introduction On ‘The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral’ by M.R. James and its BBC television adaptation by Lawrence Gordon Clark Introduction ‘The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral’ was one o

I have elsewhere remarked upon a paradox: M.R. James is thought of as ‘the father of the modern British ghost story’ (etc. etc.) and yet rarely wrote about ghosts as such. This is not a particularly original observation but it is one that remains, perhaps, under-theorised – something I hope to addre

Opening a consideration of the Ghost Story, drawing on… …the valorization of the realm of a culture’s ghosts and phantasms as a significant and rich field of social production rather than a mirage to be dispelled… *** …a Marxist genealogy fascinated with the irrational aspects of social processes, a

An intro to a series on the ghost story writer M.R. James, some of his stories, and their television adaptations... This essay is intended as a light introduction to a series on the ghost story writer M.R. James, some of his stories, and their television adaptations, as well as some related texts an

A new audiobook, exclusively available to my patrons before publication on YouTube. A reading of Monos and Daimonos by Edward Bulwer, later known as Edward Bulwer Lytton. Originally published in New Monthly Magazine in May 1830. Praised and imitated by Poe, this is a fascinating and unjustly forgott

I have read another eerie tale, this time an unfairly neglected late work by the master of the modern ghost story M.R. James. In the time of Queen Anne, two clerical scholars at Cambridge venture onto the fens by night, hoping to obtain the key to secret diabolical powers from the burial place of a