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THE GHOSTLY WORK OF M.R. JAMESThe celebrated writer M.R. James is arguably the most significant author of ghost stories in the world. His macabre work has terrified and fascinated readers for over a hundred years. Now collected in this second volume, here are a further forty-one essays by editor and James scholar Rosemary Pardoe.As well as James and Jamesian related writings by the likes of Robert Lloyd Parry, Michael Harrison and Fritz Leiber, essays include the work of Helen Grant, Mackenzie Crook, Mark Valentine, Elizabeth Hand and others, some from the tiny-circulation 'zine Lady Wardrop's Journal.Also included in this volume are Ghosts & Scholars columns (Lady Wardrop's Notes), plus seven introductions and two booklets written by the author.

Bone crushing hags in the Lake District… Cursed woods in sleepy Sussex... Forbidden books at Oxford University... Mutant Londoners in a bleak future metropolis...Fourteen novelettes and short stories, including four previously unpublished tales. With an introduction by Robert Shearman and interior illustrations by Reggie Oliver. Cover art by Paul Mudie.ΓÇïFrom writer and filmmaker Anna Taborska, author of For Those Who Dream Monsters. Anna is a British filmmaker and horror author. She has written and directed two short fiction films, two documentaries and an award-winning TV drama. She has also worked on twenty other films, with actors such as Rutger Hauer, Scott Wilson, Noah Taylor and Jenny Agutter, and was involved in the making of two major BBC television series: Auschwitz: the Nazis and the Final Solution and World War Two behind Closed Doors – Stalin, the Nazis and the West.Anna's short stories have appeared in over thirty anthologies, including Best New Writing 2011, The Best Horror of the Year Volume Four, Best British Horror 2014, Year’s Best Weird Fiction Volume 1 and Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror.Anna’s debut short story collection, For Those who Dream Monsters, published by Mortbury Press in 2013, won the Dracula Society’s Children of the Night Award and was nominated for a British Fantasy Award. Anna’s other books include Shadowcats – a micro-collection of cat stories published by Black Shuck Books in June 2019.You can watch clips from Anna’s films and check her full biography at Anna Taborska Horror:

Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, England's very own 'Prince of Chill', would have been 100 years old in 2019. To celebrate this, fifteen of the finest authors currently working in the supernatural genre have come together to contribute new tales of The Monster Club, Clavering Grange, Temptations Unlimited, Madam Orloff, Vampires, Ghosts and of course Shadmocks. Chetwynd-Hayes himself is represented by one of his classic Francis St. Clare and Frederica Masters stories. Those who are already fans will be sure to enjoy this selection of genuinely creepy stories, all of which are seasoned with a taste of the trademark Chetwynd-Hayes humour. 

THE GHOSTLY WORK OF M. R. JAMESThe celebrated writer M. R. James (1862-1936) is the most significant author of ghost stories in the world. His macabre work has terrified and fascinated readers for over 100 years. Now collected in one volume, 29 essays on his ghostly tales and themes by editor and James scholar Rosemary PardoePlus a further eight essays on other authors, including Fritz Leiber, Arthur Machen, E. G. Swain and Many Wade Wellman and a fascinating miscellany of nine additional pieces on a variety of topics.Rosemary Pardoe is the esteemed essayist and editor of the famed M. R. James related Ghosts & Scholars magazine, which she has edited since 1979. She is the co-editor (with Richard Dalby) of Ghosts And Scholars: Stories in the Tradition of M. R. James (1987), and three volumes of The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows (Sarob Press). She is the co-editor and has contributed to Warnings to the Curious: A Sheaf of Criticism on M. R. James, edited with S. T. Joshi.

Such Things May Be by James Wade (1930-1983), collects a number of the author's genre short stories, poetry, non-fiction and non-genre work from the 1960s onwards. Edited by Edward P. Berglund, the book will have James Wade's introduction to the original collection which never gained publication, plus Fritz Leiber's Foreword. The book includes tales from Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos such as 'The Deep Ones', 'A Darker Shadow Over Innsmouth' and 'The Silence of Erika Zann'; darkly supernatural terror from the Midwest, 'The Nightingale Floors', 'The Pursuer', 'The Elevator' and 'Snow in the City'. Plus weird tales set in Korea: 'The Temple of the Fox' and  'Time After Time'. And many other short stories and poetry,Plus many essays and reviews of weird fiction. 25 short stories, over 20 poems and more than 30 essays and reviews in this major retrospective of the author.After army service James Wade (1930-1983) settled in Korea and he wrote widely on music for a variety of periodicals. His symphonic and chamber music has been performed in many countries, and he completed an opera based on Richard E. Kim's best-selling novel of the Korean War, "The Martyred". He wrote a column for The Korea Times and his work has been anthologised by such noted editors as August Derleth, Ramsey Campbell, Stuart David Schiff and Herbert Val Thal.