The final issue of the long-running M.R. James journal Ghosts & Scholars, no 50, has recently been published. Edited by Rosemary Pardoe and Andy Sawyer, this is an extra large issue, at 60pp.
Ghosts & Scholars was founded in 1979 by Rosemary, who edited it for 33 issues between 1979 – 2001. It was replaced by her The Ghosts & Scholars M. R. James Newsletter, which was similar, but generally excluded fiction. This also ran for 33 issues from March 2002 to April 2018. Ghosts & Scholars then resumed from October 2018 (no 34), still edited by Rosemary Pardoe, and it then continued under her guidance but with guest editors or co-editors from no 38 onwards.
The farewell issue includes cover artwork by Jim Pitts and Daniel McGachey, stories by Katherine Haynes, Helen Grant, Daniel McGachey, C.J. Faraday and Josh Reynolds, a poetic tribute by Tina Rath, and non-fiction by Jim Bryant, Rick Kennett, Michael Fogus, John Howard and the editors, along with seven pages of reviews. This issue is limited to 250 copies.
All subscriber copies have been posted. Copies of this issue and of some back issues may be available from Andy Richards at Cold Tonnage Books.
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