Ghosts & Scholars 47

The latest issue of the M.R. James journal Ghosts & Scholars is now available. Issue 47 has been guest edited by Helen Kemp, with cover artwork by Loretta Nikolic.

This issue includes four new stories in the Jamesian tradition, ‘The Light of Darkness’ by David A. Sutton, ‘A Crooked Path’ by Josh Reynolds, ‘Professor Parkin’s Christmas Holiday’ by Tina Rath and ‘Whitaker on Daemons’ by George Frost.

In non-fiction, Katherine Haynes asks ‘Is George Martin bewitched and is he a murderer?’, in a new consideration of MRJ’s ‘Martin’s Close’, and Dr Richard Hoggett discusses ‘M.R. James and the Abbey of St.Edmund, Bury St. Edmunds’. Norman Darwen provides a note on M.R. James and the psychic researcher Harry Price, while in her regular column Rosemary Pardoe argues that MRJ’s stories are not characteristically Victorian and that they do have, like more modern stories, elements of doubt and ambiguity. There are also book and podcast reviews.

Ghost and Scholars 47 is available for £6 (UK), £12 (overseas), including postage.

Please address orders and enquiries to Mark Valentine at: lostclub[at]btopenworld[dot]com

(All subscriber copies have been posted.)