“Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. Is this you? “They will not pass a stall, a shop, or even a bedroom-shelf without reading some title, and if they find … Continue reading A crick in the neck| Calmgrove Books
A Warning to the Curious (1925) by M R James, in Collected Ghost Stories, Wordsworth Classics, 1992. ‘The Festival‘ (1925) by H P Lovecraft in The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Storiesedited by S T Joshi.Penguin Books, 1999. Linguist, palaeographer, medievalist, antiquarian and biblical scholar – Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was all these, but … Continue reading You have been warned| Calmgrove Books