Three tales of the restless dead, by the master of the English ghost story.
In Rats a reading holiday in a quiet coastal inn is thrown into confusion by a horribly thin Something in the neighbouring room. In An Evening’s Entertainment a blackberry thicket on a country lane conceals the site of a blasphemous and bloody ritual. And in The Tractate Middoth the bookstacks of a University Library are host to an unnaturally strong smell of dust…
There are no safe spaces in the world of M R James.
“The perfect mix of humour, warmth, apprehension and profound unease. A most pleasing terror…” The Sunday Times
***** Riveting… The Daily Mail
“Lloyd Parry’s mastery of the role is itself an act of possession.” The New Yorker
“Lloyd Parry catches the sense of dread that gives James his originality” The Times
“My friends and I really enjoyed it, the atmosphere [at The Folly] was superb… I always feel that the spoken word is such a luxury, to be read to, or performed to, feels such a treat.” Attendee at A Pleasing Terror performed at The Folly
