M R James Links
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darkling_talesWell as I seem to have have decreed it M R James Week here are some links you might find interesting.
(Postcard by Dallas Goffin depicting a scene from Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad)
A handy James FAQ from the Ghosts and Scholars newsletter.
F. Adey's James page is home to a list of authors in the Jamesian tradition (scroll down the sidebar to find the link.) Of the authors on this list, I can vouch for H Russell Wakefield and L T C Rolt being well worth a look (Wakefield especially writing as well as James on occasion, while being less blind to sex.) Munby and Swain are definitely lesser lights,though out of all these authors Swain is the easiest to get hold of as there is plenty of his stuff at HorrorMasters. I haven't read any Malden at all!
The Encyclopoedia of Fantastic Film and Television has a good list of James adaptations for film and TV stretching back into the 50s.
You can buy the 1968 film version of Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad on DVD or VHS from the British Film Institute. I have only seen extracts of this film but even those five-minute bursts made me stiff with fright and the Jamesian atmosphere seems well brought to life in black-and-white. I am saving up for this now! The film is reviewed here rather well, but don't read this before you've read the story!
(Postcard by Dallas Goffin depicting a scene from Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad)
A handy James FAQ from the Ghosts and Scholars newsletter.
F. Adey's James page is home to a list of authors in the Jamesian tradition (scroll down the sidebar to find the link.) Of the authors on this list, I can vouch for H Russell Wakefield and L T C Rolt being well worth a look (Wakefield especially writing as well as James on occasion, while being less blind to sex.) Munby and Swain are definitely lesser lights,though out of all these authors Swain is the easiest to get hold of as there is plenty of his stuff at HorrorMasters. I haven't read any Malden at all!
The Encyclopoedia of Fantastic Film and Television has a good list of James adaptations for film and TV stretching back into the 50s.
You can buy the 1968 film version of Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad on DVD or VHS from the British Film Institute. I have only seen extracts of this film but even those five-minute bursts made me stiff with fright and the Jamesian atmosphere seems well brought to life in black-and-white. I am saving up for this now! The film is reviewed here rather well, but don't read this before you've read the story!
