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Episode 99 – Curfew by Lucy M. Boston

December 18, 2024 · 56 min

This episode Mike and Will examine Curfew by Lucy M. Boston, a childhood tale of haunted bells, unearthed coffins and post-Jamesian highjinx aplenty. Big thanks to Debbie Wedge for providing the readings for this episode. Show…
Episode 98 – The Nature of the Evidence by May Sinclair

March 27, 2024 · 1 hr 8 min

M.R. James said that sex had no place in a ghost story. But was he right? This episode we attempt to answer this question and more, as we cover The Nature of the Evidence by May Sinclair, a tale from 1923 about a couple who just want to…
Episode 97 – Mark Gatiss’s Lot 249

January 15, 2024 · 60 min

Hold on to your mummy! This episode Mike and Will discuss Mark Gatiss’s recent Ghost Story for Christmas TV adaptation Lot 249, as well as the Arthur Conan Doyle short story it is based on. Show notes: Watch it online! (BBC iPlayer) If…
Episode 96 – The Real and the Counterfeit by Louisa Baldwin

December 21, 2023 · 47 min

This episode, Mike and Will grab their literary toboggans and gallop joyously out into the snow, only to be hit in the face by a terrifying fictional snowball in the form of Louisa Baldwin’s The Real and the Counterfeit! Big thanks as…
Episode 95 – The Weird of the Walfords by Louisa Baldwin

July 2, 2023 · 1 hr 1 min

Who would win in a fight between a man and a bed? Find the answer to this question and more in our new episode on The Weird of the Walfords by Louisa Baldwin! Also, if you like emotionally-repressed Victorian husbands, you will not leave…

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Episode 94 – Exploring Eleanor Scott with Vicky Margree and Dan Orrells

May 21, 2023 · 43 min

This episode we speak with two experts to better understand Eleanor Scott and her story Randall’s Round, Dr Vicky Margree and Prof Dan Orrells. We discuss what’s known about Eleanor Scott, her time at Oxford University in the early 1900s…
Episode 93 – Count Magnus Awakens

January 8, 2023 · 49 min

A BBC Ghost Story for Christmas is thankfully as traditional as quaffing eggnog and leaving out a carrot for Rudolph. And what a treat, as this year Count Magnus made the Black Pilgrimage onto our screens. But has Mark Gatiss been naughty…
Episode 92 – Randalls Round by Eleanor Scott

December 12, 2022 · 1 hr 8 min

This episode Mike and Will explore freaky folk-dance, village-based villainy and Cotswold chicanery in Eleanor Scott’s awesome Jamesian folk-horror tale Randalls Round! Big thanks to Kirsty Woodfield for providing the readings for this…
Episode 91 - Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley

November 5, 2022 · 1 hr 14 min

In the first episode of Season 4 tm, Mike and Will are delighted by Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley, a tale of crypts, clergymen and crikey, what is that in the dog’s mouth? Big thanks to Jim Moon for allowing us to use extracts from his…
Episode 90 – Right Through My Hair by Noel Boston

September 17, 2022 · 1 hr 2 min

Join Will and Mike for haunted cathedrals, lecherous minor canons and hair-based horrors in Noel Boston’s ‘Right Through My Hair’! Big thanks to Debbie Wedge for providing the readings for this episode. Show notes Noel Boston (The…
Episode 89 – Cushi

June 18, 2022 · 44 min

Open your hymn books to episode 89, as we’re back in church for Christopher Woodforde’s “Cushi”: a tale of capering cats, sabotaged surplices and vengeful vergers. Don’t lose your head! Show notes: Christopher Woodforde studied at…
Episode 88 - Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book Revisited

March 22, 2022 · 1 hr 30 min

Join Mike and Will for a special 10th anniversary (give or take a few months) special in which your now-aged hosts look back over a decade of M.R. James podcasting and return to the story that started it all, Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook! You…