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HAUNTOGRAPHY: The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
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— 22 Dec 2009 marna 6 comments

You probably want to read The Treasure of Abbot Thomas before you read this.
In M R James’s universe everyone who matters is fluent in Latin. It’s not so for the modern reader – or at least this modern reader – and there&#8217[…]

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hauntoMAGOGraphy: interim offcuts
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— 18 Apr 2009 mark sinker Comment

ie two books by james that aren’t ghost stories, and another book that isn’t by james
i: Old Testament Legends:being stories out of some of the less-known apochryphal books of the old testament, by montague rhodes james, which i bought a […]

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