JAMESIAN NEWS

(Last updated: March 29, 2012)

For selected material from the first twelve issues of The Ghosts & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter, follow these links:
Issue 1 (March 2002). Issue 2 (September 2002). Selections from Issue 3 (January 2003). Selections from Issue 4 (August 2003).
Selections from
Issue 5 (February 2004). Selections from Issue 6 (September 2004). Selections from Issue 7 (March 2005).
Selections from
Issue 8 (September 2005). Selections from Issue 9 (March 2006). Selections from Issue 10 (September 2006).
Selections from
Issue 11 (March 2007). Selections from Issue 12 (September 2007).

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For news of the latest issue of The Ghosts & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter (currently number 21, April 2012) see here.

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(March 29, 2012) The Ghosts & Scholars Newsletter competition for prequels and sequels to M.R. James's stories has been a huge success, with nearly four times as many entries as for any of my previous competions. The winning entry, Christopher Harman's "Quis est Iste?" is in the new Newsletter 21 (just out), but I also have enough very good and varied stories to fill the Sarob Press book which I previously mentioned here as a possibility. The list of contents can be found on Robert Morgan's Sarob Press blog so I won't give it here, but I will say that the volume will be entitled The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows, it'll be out in the Autumn and it'll contain twelve stories inspired by eleven of MRJ's tales. Christopher Harman's winning story is - dare I say it? - better, bleaker and more nightmarish than the MRJ original that inspired it. I'm also planning a special booklet for the Autumn which will tie in with the book and will be the first booklet of all-new fiction produced by the Haunted Library for many years. Ex Libris: Lufford by Daniel McGachey will contain two lengthy stories, with extra material, and will be included automatically on Newsletter subscriptions, but will also be available to buy separately.


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One final note: There are a couple of new and updated entries in the links section on the G&S Home Page, but I haven't made any serious attempt to check all the links and remove the ones (I've no doubt there are some) which no longer work. So if you've encountered problems with any entries in the section, please let me know.

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