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Kitty librarian…

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I passed my PhD guys..I can now use the title Dr...god it feels weird..

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Baba Yaga’s house

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Watch out weary traveller Baba Yaga’s house is watching you:

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My idea of a library:

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Oh hai:

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Sketching the world away:

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Omg guys: after years of raising money for my research, slaving in the @theUL archives over #MRJames letters it is finally here:my bouncing baby “Casting The Runes: The letters of M R James” I’m a published author & its god father @Markgatiss needs to smoke a cigar to celebrate

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Here’s to “hot monster summer”:

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Thug life at Christmas:

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The first photograph of moi in my PhD/doctoral robes:

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You ain’t seen me right?

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Okay then Jamesians “Casting the Runes-The Letters of M R James” Is fully funded..but the amazing news is that rather dashing and handsome chap (Sir) @Markgatiss is writing the foreward to the book..🎊🎉

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I have only just found out about “Opium Beds” how beautiful are these antique visions of loveliness..I’d love to fill one of them with cushions and just spend ages reading & drinking tea...

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Sendai Daikannon, One Of The Tallest Statues In The World: found in Sendai Japan

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How beautiful are these: a complete set of Folio Society Andrew Lang Fairy tale books-

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A beautiful hardback edition of “More Ghost Stories (of an Antiquary)” by M R James published 1911 by Edwin Arnold

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Remember: take time to sniff the flowers today…

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Never forget:

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Edward Gorey: M R James: “Casting the Runes” from his anthology The Unstrung Harp” (Gorey’s favourite M R James story):

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Monday:

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Good morning all of you #MRJames fans, (drumroll) I can now announce that my book is “Casting The Runes-The Letters of M.R. James” & it will be published by @unbounders so 9am Monday everyone who gets on their site and pledges will get this hardback book With their name inside

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What were two of the books that were inevitably found on the family coffee table when you were growing up? Mine were:

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Soo creepy: the abandoned legs?

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It’s day 23 of my M R James advent calendar and the Kitchen Cat is about to gets its revenge on Archdeacon Haynes for the crap cat food he keeps feeding it… Art by Les Edwards:

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Omg it is finally, finally here..my PhD certificate proof I am a Dr.. thanks goes to my family, ⁦ @Tasha_Alden ⁩ Prof Richard Marggraf Turley, Prof Tim Woods & Dr Richard Dover, & Helen Woodward & so many others that go into the making of a Dr..🐣

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Let’s start today with this beauty:

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Christopher Lee reads M R James's 'A Warning to the Curious' and 'The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral'.

BBC Four - Christopher Lee's Ghost Stories for Christmas - Episode guide

All episodes of Christopher Lee's Ghost Stories for Christmas

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I sometimes hate #MRJames when I come across one of his letters that look like this..his handwriting is bad enough..then he decides to write in indecipherable squiggles...😳😩

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Ahh essential reading #bookpost @DrSamGeorge1 @BillBloodyHughe @KajaFranck @daisy2205 @OGOMProject #vampireaesthetic

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Bloody hell…I’ve just been accepted as a fellow in the RSA..I can use the letters after my name soon! (I’m a bit gob smacked that they’d have me..re the Groucho Marx quote etc) but many thanks to the wonderful @PeterKalve for nominating me

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Today is Unholy advent day 7 Jamesians, and we have The Tractate Middoth (if anyone knows who to credit please let me know)

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Cats and books: a great pairing…

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Just loving these ictorian #SpringHeeledJack pictures...

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#MRJames is ready for his Zoom lecture..

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I’m presenting my paper “Was M R James away with the fairies- The Jamesian Debt to the Fairytale” 8/4/2021 at the OGOM Conference ‘Ill met by moonlight’: Gothic encounters with enchantment & the Faerie realm in literature & culture Uni of Hertfordshire see @OGOMProject to book

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My absolute favourite picture of M R James: a gothic vibe…

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Frankenstein and the creature:

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Ooh I think I’ve just found the ideal publisher for my book “M R James: Jung, Gothic Modernism, and the Unseen in his ghost stories” (excited):

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On some journeys you may encounter guardians:

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M R James (left) (in his “Wedding Dress-and nothing worn underneath“) as Peithetairos in Aristophanes The BIRDS Cambridge Theatre Royal, November 1883, text and translation B.H. Kennedy, music by Hubert Parry, conducted by Stanford.

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@CultTVandMusic Anti tank bollards from ww2 in a Scottish forest

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Just to let you know, M R James's letters won't just be a dry academic book, it will cover James's views on love, Women, Conan Doyle, Dracula, The Gothic, Cats & much more! To see this in print support The Letters of MR James by @jmainpidd at @Unbounders

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Today is Unholy advent day 22 Jamesians, and we have “Casting The Runes” (Art by @Hypnogoria )

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Dracula through the ages:

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I don’t normally do politics on here, but god I would love to know why the govt hate the arts, the humanities, the film and theatre industries in this country (esp if it’s to give funds to the working class) when it is the best thing that we export worldwide? It’s heartbreaking

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One of my obsessions: Baba Yaga’s house:

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Its day nine of my M R James advent calendar and moments after Dr Rant shouted boo the pages of “The Tractate Middoth” were found by curious cows for miles around

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In 2008 I was diagnosed with #ASD #Dyslexia #Dyspraxia & #Irlens then in 2010 the #menopause arrived & kicked me up the bum, I managed to do a PhD and get 2 books published, if you are sitting there wanting to do something: do it, the conditions are always crap. You got this:

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Just pinching myself guys as I’ve received my book contract for “Pursuing forms in darkness: A Jungian and Historical reading of M R James’s ghost stories” out soon with Lexington Books an imprint of @RLPGBooks (pulls t-shirt over head runs around room)

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It’s day 24 of my M R James advent calendar and William Ager and Paxton are into the fourth hour of their argument over who looks better in a hat:

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What was #MRJames hoping to find when he “catalogued” John Dee’s papers..Dee was a practitioner of #EnochianMagic to find out more pledge and preorder my book here...

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Hmm need a new notebook m:

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This cat looks like it’ll ask 3 questions before you get to open the gate:

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Yay..Weirdness through the post (Courtesy of my lovely Postie)...Algernon Blackwood & notes and introduction by S T Joshi, what’s not to like...

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So are there any books you have read so much that they look like they have been really read/loved? Here is my copy of M.R.James’s Collected Ghost stories that I have been using for my PhD.. So battered that my Dad bought me a copy...

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Okay..more M R James news (as promised) I’ve just signed the contract today for my book on the great man..watch this space..for how..YOU...can get involved..

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Now what would a Roger Hargreaves M.R.James story include?

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3 years

BEST NEWS EVER GUYS: Vets rung,Pod’s biopsy came back negative..the tumours removed from her mouth in her big operation last week (that many of you generous people helped with through go fund me) was a complete success & her condition will now be managed with ongoing antibiotics

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Okay: not the road for The takeaway then?

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M R James (left) in Aristophanes the Birds, at Cambridge Theatre Royal, November 1883

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Why So Many Medieval Manuscripts Depict Violent Rabbits?

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Introducing Countess Barbie de Bathory:

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It’s day 10 of my M R James advent calendar and Mr Abney is not impressed to hear “Last Christmas” by Wham playing somewhere in the house at this particular point in his story.. Art by Douglas Walters

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This would certainly have freaked out M R James: (especially if it was in his bath)…😂

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A photo of my book “Casting the Runes: The Letters of M R James” it will be with all of you soon guys:

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It’s day 19 of my M R James advent calendar and Mr Thomson watches in horror as the zombified form of the deceased sea captain searches for its contact lens…

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It’s day 22 of my M R James advent calendar and Ann Clark’s Water Zumba session is not going to plan… Art by Alan Brown:

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Just pinching myself guys as I’ve received the contract for my 2nd book “Pursuing forms in darkness: A Jungian and Historical reading of M R James’s ghost stories” with Lexington Books an imprint of @RLPGBooks (pulls t-shirt over head runs around room)

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Today is Unholy advent day 3 Jamesians, and we have a Portrait of M. R. James by Jorge González.

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The Horned God:

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Ooh, fireplace..

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“Time spent with cats is never wasted”: Edward Gorey and family

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Omg my book “Casting the Runes: the Letters of M R James is now No.1 on Amazons Hot New Releases list … @unbounders @johnmitchinson

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3 years

Raising a glass to everyone tonight and wishing you all a Happy Chrimbo..

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One of my favourite M R James ghost story book covers, I wish that they’d do a mug version:

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Finally I have a copy of The Precious..(my PhD Thesis) in my hands!

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It’s day 13 of my M R James advent calendar and John Dunning is about to find that his new aftershave (it will pull anybody said the salesman) was a really duff buy…

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Absinthe:

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Everybody please wish Monty a happy birthday..doesn’t he look splendid in his party hat on the cover of my book.. @unbounders ?

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Tommorow my book “Casting The Runes The Letters of M R James” is published, you can get it on Amazon or any good bookshop also @unbounders or if like most of us right now the cost of living is biting you in the arse please ask your librarian to order it

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M R James in 1903, Westmorland...

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M R James getting ready for his zoom call:

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No more work:

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In the ghostly realm:

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Seriously guys, everyone is celebrating my book Casting The Runes: The Letters of M R James, but it was made possible only by ordinary people contributing to the gofundme I set up to be able to research in @theUL not one corporate or university funding source helped!

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Gothic aesthetic:

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Lil guy: big ambition

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Photo of James McBryde, Wil Stone and M R James 1901

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Gregor fancied making goulash:

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Don’t forget, Casting the Runes-The Letters of M R James” with the foreword by @Markgatiss is fully funded but if you haven’t yet preordered a copy, you still have a little time to get one with #YOURNAME in the back before the chance goes-here:

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The various types of vampires by Ben Douglass (Buzzfeed)