Your Favorite Antiquarian Ghost Stories by Authors Other than M. R. James

[Extollager]

Here's a piece with remarks about ghost story by practitioner Russell Kirk, including a couple of photos of the man.

Russell Kirk: Inkling Without the Inklings

Russell Kirk as an Inkling Without the Inklings by Dale Nelson The celebrated Oxford Inklings included C. S. Lewis and his brother Warren, Charles Williams, J. R. R. Tolkien and his son Christopher…

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[paranoid marvin]

There's a very good anthology of horror stories, all relating to the same hotel, which are on BBC radio called The Hotel. Apparently it was written by Daisy Johnson, and whilst there doesn't seem to be a written version, the BBC radio version is excellent. It's very much in the style of MR James and well worth a listen on the BBC Sounds.

 

[Randy M.]

Related post in December reading.

 

[Extollager]

Then there's this...

Finding E.G. Swain and M.R. James in an Unexpected Place

In The Visitors’ Book: A Family Album (1978) by Christopher Simon Sykes, I found the following interesting passage about Mark Sykes (1879-19...

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[Guttersnipe]

"The Furnished Room" by O. Henry, if a ghostly smell of perfume counts.
It doesn't really belong here, but I like "The Red Room" by H.G. Wells; it seems like an anti-ghost story because the titular room is simply "haunted by fear."