She was also the contributing editor of Electricomics flagship release, co-writing the sci-fi story Sway, with art by Nicola Scott. This edition reprints for the first time in recent years the four original illustrations that James McBride prepared while James was working on this, his first collection. In each of them the story is told second or even third hand by a genial narrator whose acquaintances, who are themselves of a decidedly scholarly bent, have been the victims of supernatural intrusion into our world.

Canon Alberic's Scrap-book' – An antiquary discovers a scrap-book of ancient manuscripts compiled by the titular Canon Alberic in the 17th century that is in the keeping of the sacristan of a church in France that he is studying. If you’re kind of a priggish and pedantic professor going on a holiday to sharpen up As with Self Made Hero's previous Lovecraft adaptations, this is an excellent, faithful and respectful transposition of hallowed text to graphic form. The frontispiece and three plates are finely illustrated by James Bride who, whilst illustrating this book, died. The mystery of their manifestations is part of their appeal to James and he assumes a similar understanding in his reader.Since 2013 Leah has been the Project Manager of the innovative, free to use, digital comics publishing and reading platform Electricomics. The final part of this collection is 'The Ash Tree' which stands as one of my favourite James tales and is done full justice here with its scratchy, gothic lines and gruesome imagery. To those who demand an absolute ending with all the strings tightly tied up the stories contained herein may prove disappointing. In Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to you, My Lad, the object is an ancient bronze whistle that terrifies Professor Parkins to near insanity. So, right off the bat, the reader is sunk into a well of mysterious words and cryptic clues pointing to a dark present connected to a deep and foggy past.

You are drawn into a settled and comfortable world of staid gentlemen and scholars, a cosy world of droll humour and secure predictability. There are four stories here (And in Vol 2 which I have also purchased), each artist brings something of themselves into the stories which makes for an interesting read. Bleiler notes, "Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary is generally taken to mark the beginning of the modern era of supernatural fiction.R. James: 'Number 13', 'Count Magnus', 'Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad' and 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas'. The Ash-tree' – A nobleman and his descendants find that being the star witness in a witch trial probably isn’t a good idea.

An uncommon first edition, first issue, with the sixteen pages of publisher's adverts dated November 1904. The Mezzotint' is captured perfectly in angular sepia tones, creating an opressive, malevolent tone. We give our best to give you the best book but in some cases we have to adjust few pages which are blur or missing or black spots. The second printing of the most famous compilation of ghost stories of all time, “generally taken to mark the beginning of the modern era of supernatural fiction. In 2008 The History Press published 800 Years of Haunted Liverpool - John's weird history/paranormal guidebook to the city.He makes the formula sound easy, and he had many imitators, but James remains the master of tapping into our inner fears, the dark places of our minds and souls, our unconsciousness, where we are pursued by a thing unknown, the inadmissible, perhaps the secret self; the primal fear of things that go bump in the night. Leah Moore and John Reppion have collaborated on Doctor Who: The Whispering Gallery, The Trial of Sherlock Holmes and an adaptation of H. Known as the originator of the 'antiquarian ghost story genre' with the 1904 publication of this collection, James's works are significant in redefining the ghost story for a new century, abandoning established cliches in favour of a more realistic style. The first printing is found with and without an inserted 16 page publisher's catalog of books, this copy does not have it and no priority has been determined concerning it.