young Remus's conscience / Snape / Booze / Maugrim / Not saying the name

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <catlady at w...> 

> I don't know who is M.R.James, ......

Then you've missed something special.

M.R.James, English, scholar and antiquarian; roughly 1860 - 1930.
Wrote what are probably the scariest ghost stories in print. Very
Victorian High Gothic stuff.
Three collections that I know of - and they're all in print, I think.
"The Ghost Stories of an Antiquary"
"Further Ghost Stories of an Antiquary"
"Reading the Runes".

"Whistle and I'll come to you, my lad" is one of his best known tales -  along 
with "The Mezzotint", "Lost Hearts", "The Stalls at Barchester Cathedral"
and "A Warning to the Curious."

You'll never look at crumpled linen in the same way again.

Kneasy