Supernatural Fiction Readers discussion

For anyone interested in a classic horror read, i just posted a review of M.R. James's compilation Casting the Runes. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

M.R. James is my favourite author of the weird, and ghostly tales. Reading one again, or watching a new dramatisation of one by the BBC (they film one at the end of most years) is a real treat for me 😊

So far I've written 9 reviews of his short stories and collections. If you like to read them they are on this separate shelf LINK HERE

I've now been reading an excellent collection of 25 authors who typically wrote in the style of M.R. James. Several were his personal friends. Here's my new review of that one (with 25 stories, part had to spread into the comments!)

Ghosts And Scholars: Ghost Stories In The Tradition Of M.R. James edited by Rosemary Pardoe and Richard Dalby ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Jean's review

But it's so great to start the year with a review of a 5 star book!

Yes his books are pretty good, I think it in part down to when his books were written. They are set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Which we tend to think of as the birth of the modern era, but there was still just enough of the old world left, and you can really feel that in his tales.

I agree, Alan. For a long time I thought M.R. James was much earlier - mid-Victorian - as his stories have that feel. But he went right through the Edwardian era.