Shapeless Ghost
HE, minutes of the Chitchat Society for October 28, 1893, record that "Mr. James read Two Ghost Stories." Every year after that, a small party assembled at his rooms to hear "Monty" James’s latest. A Fellow of King’s and for 18 years Provost of Eton, Dr. Montague James admitted that Sheridan le, Fanu was his chief inspiration, especi-, ally where walking corpses were concerned, but James surpasses most writers of ghost stories in the eeriness of his atmosphere, in the vindictiveness and malignancy of his ghosts, who have an uncomifortable habit of -operating in broad daylight. One of M. R. James’s stories, a chiller in miniature, called The Haunted Doll’s House, was written re the library of the Queen’s Doll’s ouse. Anvther and even more famous story describes the unnerving experience of a professor who plays a tune on an old flute, and conjures up a horror that is not-only nameless but shapeless, This story, "Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, my Lad," told by Valentine Dyall | in the BBC series The Man in Black willbe heard from 4YZ at 10.0 p.m, on Friday, March 3.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 557, 24 February 1950, Page 11
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189Shapeless Ghost New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 557, 24 February 1950, Page 11
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