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 14: “THE GHOST IN THE LIBRARY”
What could be more Jamsian than a ghost in a library? For me, as for many of my age I’m sure, Ghostbusters was very much my first overt introduction into horror and the supernatural. I was six years old when the film came out, but I never went to see it on the cinema. Instead, I discovered it via the VHS release, and I became more than a little obsessed with the film.
The first ghost we see in the film is that of a former librarian at New York Public Library, and its transformation from little old lady into malevolent monster is a jump scare I’m still not tired of watching.
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.