Reading – Ghosts, Treat them Gently!

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Recorded16 Sep 2012

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Mike is off on his honeymoon at the moment, so in lieu of a full episode Will provides a reading of and short commentary on an M.R. James essay ‘Ghosts – Treat them Gently!‘ which was originally published in the Evening News on 17 April 1931. In the essay Monty talks about what ingredients he thinks go to make up a really successful ghost story, and gives an insight into the supernatural fiction he rates most highly. Links The ‘Not at Night’ series Society for Psychical Research Mr Wardle’s Fat Boy Sheridan Le Fanu William Harrison Ainsworth The Lancashire Witches (Novel by above) E.F Benson Algernon Blackwood A. M. Burrage Walter de la Mare H. Russell Wakefield Margaret Oliphant Lanoe Falconer

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