Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

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I had been wondering if, in time, the admirable team at Naxos AudioBooks would tackle Dr James’s disturbing tales… and now, with great pleasure, I welcome this recording of his first collection, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. LEAH MOORE is an author, columnist, and digital comics evangelist, born in Northampton, England in 1978. Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, 133-137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, LONDON SW19 7JY. The ideal situation, of listening to Mr Provost himself, is, of course, impossible today, but we are remarkably fortunate, thanks to Robert Lloyd Parry, in having the chance to experience some of the stories in circumstances not wholly dissimilar to those of Dr James’s first audiences.

When he has you thoroughly involved and at your most somnambulant, it is only then that the inexplicable suddenly rears its head, usually byway of a few powerful images that change the dream to nightmare. Although Arnold suggested another illustrator, James, a close friend of McBryde's, was adamant that he could not be replaced. I don't want to spoil anyone, but the last stories really finish the book in a stellar way, and I was very perturbed when I went to bed after reading them. As a fan of the originals (I love classic genre fiction and horror in particular) and of only the best graphic novels (as an artist myself I’m very fussy about artwork) I couldn’t resist trying this but was expecting it to have some aspects that I fundamentally disliked.

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic.The second printing of the most famous compilation of ghost stories of all time, “generally taken to mark the beginning of the modern era of supernatural fiction. Many of them were written to be read aloud, as there was a tradition in Victorian families of reading spooky tales aloud on Christmas Eve. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. If you like traditional ghost stories that unnerve the reader subtly by suggestion and indirection, this is a book you should read. An uncommon first edition, first issue, with the sixteen pages of publisher's adverts dated November 1904.

This careful, scholarly answer tells us a great deal about the creator of some of the greatest ghost stories in the English language. One of James' most important achievements was to redefine the ghost story for the new century by dispensing with many of the formal Gothic trappings of his predecessors, replacing them with more realistic contemporary settings. James wrote: ‘In the infancy of the art [of writing ghost stories] we needed the haunted castle on a beetling rock to put us in the right frame [of mind],’ but, he expounded, a ghost is much more effective in a setting that is ‘contemporary and even ordinary. comprises graphic adaptations of four of James's most compelling and unsettling stories, plunging readers into a world of pervasive, creeping disquiet - a world populated by vengeful phantoms, disturbing visions and spectral works of art. Published on the 80th anniversary of James's death, this is a graphic novel to be read on a winter's night, a book to curl up with - but not a book for the faint-hearted.His fiction has been published in anthologies from Combustion Books, Ghostwoods Books, PS Publishing, Snowbooks, Swan River Press, and Vagrants Among Ruins.

Finely bound copy of the Dover edition, which kept the work of James available for American readers before the ghost story revival. I enjoyed reading the stories in this book some where brought a shudder to your spine, but mild enough to enjoy at night.Or has he released some force that can’t be contained, as in Count Magnus where Mr Wraxall is literally hunted and haunted to death. His quiet, contented and uneventful life outside his studies consisted of bicycle rides, church music and games of patience, seemingly the only frisson being provided by the telling of ghost stories at Christmas to a group of friends after dinner in a room lit by a single candle. The stories are not what most people would consider scary but they are beautifully written and atmospheric.