To celebrate the release of our Self Made Hero book of M. R. James adaptations – Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Vol 1 – we’re going to be counting down to Christmas in true Jamesian style, with a new ghostly image and nugget of info every day.
Day 1: “IT LEAPT TOWARDS HIM UPON THE INSTANT”
One of only four illustrations which M. R. James’ good friend and former Kings College Cambridge student James McBryde completed for the original edition of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary before his untimely death.
On the 6th of May, 1904 McBryde wrote to his friend James, “I have finished the Whistle ghost. I covered yards of paper to put in the moon shadows correctly and it is certainly the best thing I have ever drawn.”
Moore & Reppion will be introducing a rare screening of two classic films from the BBC’s Ghost Story For Christmas series – The Signalman & Whistle And I’ll Come To You – at FACT Liverpool on Wednesday the 21st of December at 7pm.
The screening is part of Picturehouse’s nationwide A Warning to the Curious: Ghost Stories at Christmas season.