Talking Terror: An M.R. James Event at Gladstone’s Library - SOLD OUT
Talking Terror: An M.R. James Event at Gladstone’s Library
Wednesday 1st November beginning with lunch at 1pm
Individual tickets to the evening performance only are £15. These have sold out. Please email [email protected] to be notified if there are cancellations.
Join us here at Gladstone’s Library for an hour-long discussion of all things M. R. James. Featuring Jamesian experts Rosemary Pardoe (The Black Pilgrimage) and Ramsey Campbell (The Wise Friend), alongside performer Robert Lloyd Parry (Nunkie Theatre – The M.R. James Project) discussion is sure to roam over James’s considerable contribution to horror writing, not only in his own peculiarly British context but across the world.
This event includes lunch, the panel and dinner.
Then join performer R M Lloyd Parry in our Theology room for an atmospheric evening.
After the sell-out smash that was Robert’s performance last year, we’re delighted to welcome him back to our Grade-1 listed Reading Rooms. This most atmospheric of one-man shows is perfect for fans of classic Gothic horror.
The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes Ramsey Campbell as “Britain’s most respected living horror writer”. His awards include the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature. Among his novels are The Face That Must Die, Incarnate, Midnight Sun, The Count of Eleven, The Darkest Part of the Woods, The Overnight, Secret Story, The Grin of the Dark, Thieving Fear, Creatures of the Pool, The Seven Days of Cain, Ghosts Know, The Kind Folk, Think Yourself Lucky, Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach, The Wise Friend, Somebody’s Voice, Fellstones and The Lonely Lands. His Brichester Mythos trilogy consists of The Searching Dead, Born to the Dark and The Way of the Worm. His collections include Waking Nightmares, Ghosts and Grisly Things, Told by the Dead, Just Behind You, Holes for Faces, By the Light of My Skull, Fearful Implications, and a two-volume retrospective roundup (Phantasmagorical Stories) as well as The Village Killings and Other Novellas. His non-fiction is collected as Ramsey Campbell, Probably and Ramsey Campbell, Certainly, while Ramsey’s Rambles collects his video reviews, and Six Stooges and Counting is a book-length study of the Three Stooges. Limericks of the Alarming and Phantasmal is a history of horror fiction in the form of fifty limericks.
Rosemary Pardoe is a writer on weird fiction. She is the author of two volumes of The Black Pilgrimage & Other Explorations: Essays on Supernatural Fiction (2018 & 2023). With S.T. Joshi, she co-edited Warnings to the Curious: A Sheaf of Criticism on M.R. James (2007). For forty years, until 2019, Rosemary was editor of the Ghosts & Scholars journal, one of the leading resources on M.R. James. Rosemary’s website represents a life’s work by her and her late husband, Darroll Pardoe. Filled with Jamesian information, it’s an essential bookmark for James fans.
Nunkie is a literary storytelling unit, committed to bringing to life the most thrilling short stories in the English language. Nunkie’s M. R. James Project is an initiative designed to revive the eeriest and most entertaining tales, many of which were originally written to be performed by MR James himself. Their recent tour of the US was a smash hit, with The New Yorker noting that ‘Lloyd Parry’s mastery of the role [of M.R. James] is itself an act of possession’.
Timetable:
1pm - Lunch
2.30-3.30pm - Talking Terror Panel
4pm - Book signings
5.30pm - Dinner
7pm - A Warning to the Curious – Two Ghost Stories by M R James (performance)
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Tickets are in-person attendance only. Full day Tickets £70. Individual tickets to the evening performance only are £15. Click here to purchase.
Please note, tickets cannot be refunded or used for another event if ticketholders are unable to attend. All ticket purchases support us to care for the Library building and the collections it holds. As a charity, Gladstone's Library receives no government funding, so all purchases, Gift Aid and donations, are deeply appreciated.
This event is kindly sponsored by Canda Copying. Please note that tickets for this event are e-tickets. Book online and have your ticket emailed directly to you.
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Cover image by Shelagh Bidwell