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 23: “JACK SPARKS”
Jason Arnopp‘s novel The Last Days of Jack Sparks is, without a shadow of a doubt, my favourite new horror of 2016. A true 21st century ghost story, with more twists and turns than anyone has any right to expect.
Jack Sparks died while writing this book. This is the account of his final days.
It was no secret that Jack had been researching the occult for his new book. He’d already triggered a furious Twitter storm by mocking an exorcism he witnessed in rural Italy.
Then there was that video: forty seconds of chilling footage that Jack repeatedly claimed was not of his making, yet was posted from his own YouTube account.
Nobody knew what happened to Jack in the days that followed – until now. This book, compiled from the files found after his death, reveals the chilling details of Jack’s final hours.