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The Ghosts & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter [#5, February 2004] ed. Rosemary Pardoe (Haunted Library, £7/$15 per year, 28pp, octavo s/s) Details supplied by Denny Lien. 2 · Editorial · Rosemary Pardoe · ed 3 · News · Rosemary Pardoe · cl 4 · The Treasure of Steinfeld Abbey: A Visit to the Scene of “The Treasure of Abbot Thomas” · Helen Grant · te 9 · The MRJ Price Index · Don Tumasonis · ar 11 · Jamesian Notes & Queries · Various · cl _11 · Was Ann Clark Pregnant? · Tina Rath · ar; on Martin’s Close. _13 · Hostanes Magus · Rosemary Pardoe · ar [Ref. M. R. James]; on “Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance”. _15 · M.R. James and Sex · Muriel Smith · ar _16 · Spiders in “The Ash-Tree” · Jacqueline Simpson · ar _18 · The Second Boyhood of Dr. James · David Longhorn · ar; disputing suggestion MRJ was a paedophile. _20 · Follow-ups: George MacDonald · Barbara Brown · ar _21 · Follow-ups: Robert Graves · Rosemary Pardoe · ar 22 · Reviews _22 · The Haunted Baronet and Others: Ghost Stories, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · David Rowlands · br _22 · Afternoon Play: The House at World’s End (BBC radio) · Roger Johnson · rv 25 · Letters · The Readers · lc _25 · [letter] · Barbara Brown · lt _26 · [letter] · David Rowlands · lt _26 · [letter] · Douglas Walters · lt _27 · [letter] · Mike Pincombe · lt _27 · [letter] · Don Tumasonis · lt _27 · [letter] · Graeme Stevenson · lt _28 · [letter] · Christopher Roden · lt

The Ghosts & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter [#6, September 2004] ed. Rosemary Pardoe (Haunted Library, £7/$15 per year, 40pp, octavo s/s) Details supplied by Denny Lien. 2 · Editorial · Rosemary Pardoe · ed 3 · News · Rosemary Pardoe · cl 4 · The Herefordshire of “A View from a Hill” · Rosemary & Darroll Pardoe · ar [Ref. M. R. James] 10 · Hill-Digging and Magic · Augustus Jessopp · ar The Nineteenth Century January 1887 17 · The Nature of the Beast: The Demonology of “Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book” · Helen Grant · ar 25 · Jamesian Notes & Queries · Various · cl _25 · “Before someone take and put it right again” · Rosemary Pardoe · ar; on “A Neighbor’s Landmark”. _27 · Rats to Mr. Mullen · Eric Bryan · ar; on “Rats” and two non-MRJ stories. _29 · Queries: (untitled) · Rosemary Pardoe · ms; on a poem in A Warning to the Curious, and on A.P. Baker. 32 · Reviews _32 · Otia Imperialia, by Gervase of Tilbury (Banks/Binn tr) · Don Tumasonis · br _35 · Medieval Ghost Stories, ed. Andrew Joynes · Don Tumasonis · br _37 · The Proceedings of That Night, by Lynne Truss (BBC radio) · Rosemary Pardoe · rv 38 · Letters · The Readers · lc _38 · [letter] · Barbara Brown · lt _38 · [letter] · David Rowlands · lt _39 · [letter] · Chico Kidd · lt _39 · [letter] · Don Tomasonis · lt _39 · [letter] · Katherine Haynes · lt

The Ghosts & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter [#7, March 2005] ed. Rosemary Pardoe (Haunted Library, £7/$17 per year, 44pp, octavo s/s) Details supplied by Denny Lien. 2 · Editorial · Rosemary Pardoe · ed 3 · News · Rosemary Pardoe · cl 4 · Speaker Lenthall’s Tomb · M. R. James · uw; rough draft, partially published previously in The Fenstanton Witch and Others. 13 · Plan of the Cathedral of St Bertrand de Commings · [uncredited] · il 14 · “He was laughing in the church”: A Visit to St Bertrand de Comminges · Helen Grant · te 23 · The Value of Art and Inanimate Objects in the Ghost Stories of M.R. James · Simon Newman · ar 30 · “The Old Man on the Hill”: Beelzebub in “An Evening’s Entertainment” · Rosemary Pardoe · ar [Ref. M. R. James] 34 · Jamesian Notes & Queries · Various · cl _34 · Just How Wicked Was That “Wicked Young Man”?: A Look at “An Evening’s Entertainment” · Tina Rath · ar _36 · M.R. James Meets The Mummy · Steve Duffy · ar; on possible influence of McBryde illo for “Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book”. 38 · Letters · The Readers · lc _38 · [letter] · Tom Mullen · lt _38 · [letter] · Jacqueline Simpson · lt _39 · [letter] · Roger Johnson · lt _39 · [letter] · David Rowlands · lt _39 · [letter] · Katherine Haynes · lt _39 · [letter] · Ron Weighell · lt _40 · [letter] · Muriel Smith · lt _40 · [letter] · Steve Andrson · lt _40 · [letter] · Richard Dalby · lt _40 · [letter] · Helen Grant · lt _41 · [letter] · Steve Duffy · lt 43 · Reviews _43 · M.R. James (BBC4 tv documentary) · David Rowlands · mr _43 · A College Mystery, by A.P. Baker · Rosemary Pardoe · br

The Ghosts & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter [#8, September 2005] ed. Rosemary Pardoe (Haunted Library, £7/$17 per year, 44pp, octavo s/s) Details supplied by Denny Lien. 2 · Editorial · Rosemary Pardoe · ed 3 · News · Rosemary Pardoe · cl 4 · The Troll and the Christening · M. R. James · ss; a retelling of a Danish legend. 6 · The Antiquarian Background of M.R. James’s Ghost Stories · James Doig · ar 11 · A.P. Baker and a College Mystery · Rosemary Pardoe · ar [Ref. A. P. Baker] 15 · A Warning to the (Urban) Curious: Folklore and Historic Preservation in the Ghost Stories of M.R. James · Steve Winnall · ar 23 · Jamesian Notes & Queries · Various · cl _23 · In Defence of “The Tractate Middoth” · Jacqueline Simpson · ar _25 · In Defence of “The Tractate Middoth” · George Featherston · ar _27 · In Defence of “The Tractate Middoth” · C. E. War · ar _30 · Mithras and the Ghost Story · C. I. Tuckley · ar _32 · “Depositum Custodi”: Wells and Treasure in German Folklore · Helen Grant · ar 35 · Letters · The Readers · lc; now broken up by topic rather than by author. _ · [letter] · John Gordon · lt _ · [letter] · A. Langley Searles · lt _ · [letter] · David Rowlands · lt _ · [letter] · Chico Kidd · lt _ · [letter] · Jacqueline Simpson · lt _ · [letter] · John Howard · lt _ · [letter] · Roger Johnson · lt _ · [letter] · Clive Ward · lt _ · [letter] · Eric Bryan · lt _ · [letter] · Katherine Haynes · lt _ · [letter] · Douglas Walters · lt _ · [letter] · Denise Grushon · lt _ · [letter] · Nick Connell · lt _ · [letter] · Graeme Stevenson · lt _ · [letter] · Roger Nicholson · lt 38 · Reviews _38 · De Nugis Curialium: Couriers’ Trifles, by Walter Map (ed. MRJ) · Rosemary Pardoe · br _40 · Sea Mist, by E.F. Benson · David Rowlands · br _41 · Mr. Justice Harbottle and Others: Ghost Stories, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · Roger Johnson · br

The Ghosts & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter [#9, March 2006] ed. Rosemary Pardoe (Haunted Library, £8/$20 per year, 20pp, octavo s/s) For subscribers, this issue was accompanied by a second pamphlet, Tales from Lectoure, “containing M.R. James’s selections and translations of the strange Gascon folk tales collected by Jean-Francois Blade in the nineteenth century.” I can’t find my copy of this to index just at present. Details supplied by Denny Lien. 2 · Editorial · Rosemary Pardoe · ed 3 · News · Rosemary Pardoe · cl 4 · Class War in “Casting the Runes” · Mike Pincombe · ar 9 · Jamesian Notes & Queries · Various · cl _9 · Slightly Cross About “Abbot Thomas” · David Longhorn · ar _10 · A Defence of “The Two Doctors” · Mark Nicolls · ar _11 · Adventures of a Jamesian Detective · Rosemary Pardoe · ar [Ref. M. R. James]; part 1: on identifying recipient of MRJ letter, reprinted from The Everlasting Club (apa) mailing 63. part 2: on identifying recipient of MRJ Christmas card. 14 · Letters · The Readers · lc _ · [letter] · David Rowlands · lt _ · [letter] · Katherine Haynes · lt _ · [letter] · Deborah Dwyer · lt _ · [letter] · Daniel McGachey · lt _ · [letter] · Antonio Monteiro · lt _ · [letter] · Jim Rockhill · lt _ · [letter] · Helen Grant · lt _ · [letter] · Richard Dalby · lt 17 · Reviews _17 · Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories (ed Joshi) · Rosemary Pardoe · br _19 · Beating the Devil: The Making of Night of the Demon, by Tony Earnshaw · Steve Duffy · br

The Ghosts & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter [#10, September 2006] ed. Rosemary Pardoe (Haunted Library, £8/$20 per year, 44pp, octavo s/s) Details supplied by Denny Lien. 2 · Editorial · Rosemary Pardoe · ed 3 · News · Rosemary Pardoe · cl 5 · On Mysticism in Poetry and Art · M. R. James · ar 8 · Some (Further) Remarks on Ghost Stories · Brian J. Showers, Barbara Roden, David G. Rowlands, Stephen Volk, Chico Kidd, Reggie Oliver, Gary McMahon, Jason van Hollander, David Sutton & Joel Lane · sy 15 · The Black Spider: Antecedents of “The Ash-Tree” · Helen Grant · ar 20 · M.R. James and the Vampires · Tina Rath · ar 25 · Two Magicians: Wilsthorpe and Aswarby · Rosemary & Darroll Pardoe · ar [Ref. M. R. James] 27 · Marcilly-le-Hayer · M. R. James · uw; corrected version of previously published fragment. 31 · Jamesian Notes & Queries · Various · cl _31 · Another Link to Alfred Watkins? · Norman Darwen · ar; on MRJ’s possible use of ley lines. _32 · Ghosts in the Trenches? · George R. Featherston · ar; on Jamesian horror in WWI memoirs. _34 · A Note on Miss Mothersole · Rosemary Pardoe · ar _34 · An Eton and King’s Query · Rosemary Pardoe · ar; on a stage magic reference. 35 · Letters · The Readers · lc _ · [letter] · Christopher Roden · lt _ · [letter] · David Rowlands · lt _ · [letter] · Chico Kidd · lt _ · [letter] · Hugh Lamb · lt _ · [letter] · Austin Baker · lt _ · [letter] · Richard Dalby · lt _ · [letter] · Jim Bryant · lt _ · [letter] · David Longhorn · lt _ · [letter] · Tina Rath · lt 40 · Reviews _40 · Eton and Kings (Ash-Tree ed) · David Rowlands · br _41 · A View to a Hill (BBC4 tv) · Daniel McGachey · mr

The Ghosts & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter [#11, March 2007] ed. Rosemary Pardoe (Haunted Library, £8/$20 per year, 44pp, octavo s/s) included with this issue is a folded sheet comprising an entry form for the Ghosts & Scholars M.R. James Survey 2007 Details supplied by Denny Lien. 2 · Editorial · Rosemary Pardoe · ed 3 · News · Rosemary Pardoe · cl 5 · “The Shadow of the Occupant of Number 13” · Helen Grant · te; tour of town of Viborg, Denmark. 11 · John Humphreys · M. R. James · uw; corrected version of previously published fragment. 21 · The Head of John the Baptist · Jane Harrison · ar Classical Review December 1916 24 · Some Remarks on “The Head of John the Baptist” · M. R. James · ar Classical Review February 1917 28 · Jamesian Notes & Queries · Various · cl _28 · “A View from a Hill”: A Reply · C. E. Ward · ar; on the BBC4 tv adaptation. _32 · “Two Doctors” Revisited · Peter Bell · ar _34 · An Eton and King’s Query: An Answer? · Rosemary Pardoe · ar 35 · Letters · The Readers · lc _ · [letter] · Reggie Oliver · lt _ · [letter] · Daniel McGachey · lt _ · [letter] · David Rowlands · lt _ · [letter] · Katherine Haynes · lt _ · [letter] · Mike Pincombe · lt 36 · Reviews _36 · The Haunted Dolls’ House and Other Ghost Stories, by M.R. James · Rosemary Pardoe · br _38 · A Pleasing Terror: Two Ghost Stories by M.R. James (Robert Lloyd Parry stage production) · Katherine Haynes · th _39 · Literary Walking Tours of Gothic Dublin, by Brian J. Showers · David Rowlands · br 41 · An Index to Issues 1-10 · Rosemary Pardoe · ix