A Ghosts & Scholars Book of Folk Horror
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£300.00
Neuilly-le-Vendin, France: Sarob Press, 2018. Limited Edition Hardback. Fine condition. Continuing the tradition of stories in the vein of M.R. James, Pardoe selects ten tales from the highly-regarded Ghosts and Scholars series, with another seven brand new tales. An excellent collection. Fine / Fine. Item #13649
From the book's flap: "A collection of seventeen Jamesian Folk Horror tales. Ten have been selected from the pages of editor Rosemary Pardoe's journals Ghosts & Scholars and The Ghosts & Scholars MR James Newsletter and seven are newly written especially for this volume. The previously published stories date from as early as 1980 and as recent as 2015. Here you'll find Folk Horror in a variety of expected and unexpected settings, from ancient burial mounds in Wiltshire and East Anglia to a park in Liverpool, by way of ruins in Ireland, and the countryside/villages of the Lake District, Dorset, Derbyshire and an unspecified southern county. In the new stories the settings range further afield and include Scotland and Greece."
From the book's flap: "A collection of seventeen Jamesian Folk Horror tales. Ten have been selected from the pages of editor Rosemary Pardoe's journals Ghosts & Scholars and The Ghosts & Scholars MR James Newsletter and seven are newly written especially for this volume. The previously published stories date from as early as 1980 and as recent as 2015. Here you'll find Folk Horror in a variety of expected and unexpected settings, from ancient burial mounds in Wiltshire and East Anglia to a park in Liverpool, by way of ruins in Ireland, and the countryside/villages of the Lake District, Dorset, Derbyshire and an unspecified southern county. In the new stories the settings range further afield and include Scotland and Greece."
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