CASTING THE RUNES The Letters of M. R. James

Dr. Jane Mainley-Piddock

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ISBN 10: 1800181752 ISBN 13: 9781800181755

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FINE hardback in FINE price clipped dustwrapper. 2023 Unbound, First Edition, First Printing. Foreword by Mark Gatiss. NO inscriptions. NB. REGRETTABLY NOT AVAILABLE TO SEND TO EU COUNTRIES.

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Title: CASTING THE RUNES The Letters of M. R. James
Publisher: Unbound
Publication Date: 2023
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1800181752
ISBN 13: 9781800181755
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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The much-loved author Montague Rhodes James is best known today for his ghost stories. Their popularity has kept them in print since the first collection was issued in 1931, and they've earned a cult following. But for all this literary success, his lifetime's correspondence has remained inaccessible in a Cambridge University archive – until now.

This first ever collection of his personal letters has been meticulously curated, transcribed and annotated by Jamesian scholar Jane Mainley-Piddock to offer an unprecedented and overdue insight into a great and singular mind. Through notoriously illegible handwriting, we learn of James's fear of spiders and his love of cats; his musings on the work of other contemporary authors; and a whole life's thoughts on a host of subjects – which shed light on the man himself: his family, his work, his relationships and preoccupations.

Essential reading for any fan, *Casting the Runes *brings at last to the fore a writer adored for his fiction who himself has long remained in the shadows.

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Jane Mainley-Piddock is a British writer, blogger and book reviewer. She specialises in the ghost stories of M. R. James and the literature of the late Victorian period. She blogs on her website janemainley-piddock.com, where you will also find her poetry and short stories. She is based in Shropshire.@jmainpidd

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