In conversation with… Robert Lloyd Parry
For many M. R. James aficionados, the name Robert Lloyd Parry will require no introduction. Since 2005, Robert has been touring his one-man M. R. James show, terrifying and enthralling audiences with an experience as close as possible to actually sitting down in front of James himself at one of the legendary Chit-Chat Club ghost…
The Canterbury Psalter
Throughout his life, M. R. James was involved in the publication of several facsimile editions of important medieval manuscripts, for which he would provide introductions and detailed notes in the same vein as his extensive MS. catalogues. These volumes were primarily produced by the exclusive bibliophilic society the Roxburghe Club, of which James became a…
Letters to the Editor: “West Suffolk Roads”
Over the course of his life, M. R. James sent many letters to contemporary newspapers, covering a variety of subjects from archaeological discoveries to obituaries of friends and colleagues. I thought it might be of interest to begin a series wherein I will occasionally transcribe some of these letters. The vast majority of these were…
M. R. James on film
Shortly after assembling the research materials for my previous post on the Penn-Gray Society, I began thinking more deeply about the number of “lost” photographs of M. R. James that may lay waiting to be discovered in unexplored paper or digital archives. This thought led me to pose the question to myself as to whether…
M. R. James, Stoke Poges, and the Penn-Gray Society
Recently, while browsing catalogues of books online I happened upon a volume entitled William Penn, Thomas Gray and an Account of the Historical Associations of Stoke Poges, which was compiled by F. McDermott and privately published in around 1930 on behalf of the Penn-Gray Society. The book itself provides short histories of the lives of…
Antiquarian Ghosts 