Thank you Paul, another superb M R James story read by the incomparable Michael Hordern, just can't be bettered.
@purdy9170
2 жыл бұрын
James is the king of the English Ghost Story at its finest .. they never pale ...and are brought to life again and again by great narrators such as Mr Horden . 💕💕💕
@stewartlancaster6155
24 күн бұрын
to be pedantic, he is not a Mr., he was a Sir as he was knighted by the Queen in 1983. He died of kidney disease in 1995.
@Planetholmes
3 жыл бұрын
I love the writings of MR James .These stories so well done are a wonderful treat and a blessed retreat from current events and trite modern entertainment.
@EleanorPeterson
Жыл бұрын
How frightening for a clergyman to be haunted by visions of one of Mrs Slocombe's furry friends... 🐈👀
@GwynEllisHughes
4 ай бұрын
Well, you know how her pussy got up to all kinds of shenanigans 😂
@susanbeesley8299
2 жыл бұрын
Well worth listening to thank you
@chrisevans5259
5 жыл бұрын
I never tire of Michael Horderns rich voice and his wonderful storytelling
@paulgoddard
3 жыл бұрын
I so agree. There are many other books I wish he had narrated. 🙂
@yellowkangdexasthur4904
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for no ads
@carollawson1210
4 жыл бұрын
I think I've become addicted to M.R.James so Thank You for the wonderful collection of stories. I've listened to Audio Books for quite a few years now and of course Ruth Rendell is one of my favourite Authors so thank you once again for the Wexfords videoes. Just like to add that I also don't get any adverts in the Wexford videos 🤗
@budahbaba7856
4 жыл бұрын
Mr James! What a writer he was! ;)
@barneyhiggins5630
3 жыл бұрын
Marvellous stuff
@BenjaminBartle-li3pc
2 жыл бұрын
What a great voice for a great story
@kateking3953
4 жыл бұрын
"Let me wish you...a happy New Year..." - wonderful!
@javedsultan4830
4 жыл бұрын
I must stay firm
@yohei72
3 жыл бұрын
"May I come in?" is the shiveriest part for me.
@suzitagroom2869
6 жыл бұрын
Love and Light Forever. My Father is a wonderful Gentleman. Kind hearted. And people loved being in his presence. He made his family always feel special. And everything he cooked was perfection at its finest. I loved being around my Father. Sargent Major Bray is my Dad.
@montsemajanmartinez9824
5 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas to you. Peace be on you and your family.
@MeriScrapper13
9 ай бұрын
Just watched this acted by a great British cast. I have Britbox, one of the best decisions i made in addition to dropping cable tv. Love this, thank you!
@OnceTheyNamedMeiWasnt
Жыл бұрын
Oh my Goddard! I love this, and though I barely know you, I think I might love you. I'm sorry for sounding like such an old romantic, but you are a wonderful fellow. Thank you!
@stewartlancaster6155
24 күн бұрын
who do you love ? it is not clear from your comment.
@OnceTheyNamedMeiWasnt
24 күн бұрын
@@stewartlancaster6155 I thought it was clear, as the person I love is named in my comment. I'm sorry if I could have made this more apparent. I would not, for one minute, want my love to be diluted in any way.
@leebrockbank5813
4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful
@rtelkin2194
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Unusual for MRJ to state the murder instead of leaving it entirely, by reticence, to inference; it seems still one of his best tales.
@steerpike66
5 жыл бұрын
These moments of graphic horror are actually in the James mode, but he was very much into using them economically. Mr Wraxall meets a similarly hideous disfigurement in 'Count Magnus' and there is a very gory human sacrifice in 'An Evening's Entertainment.'
@nicholasgerrish6022
Жыл бұрын
Not so very unusual, If one remembers “Martins Close”, for example……
@steerpike66
5 жыл бұрын
James was a fan of literary allusions and pastiches, and this story, which I consider one of his best, seem to be a murderous riff on Anthony Trollope. Not to mention it is also a cat story and semi-epistolary, built up from newspaper articles, notes, and diary entries. Haynes is one of the few protagonists who seems to have earned his grisly fate, though his motivations for removing the doddering Pulteney appear to have been more a desire for orderly administration than sheer ambition.
@javedsultan4830
4 жыл бұрын
you wrote this comment as if it were from your doctoral assignment.
@phillatimer6315
3 жыл бұрын
I agree he earned his fate but would the haunting have ended if he had publicly confessed and repented of his sin? Of course, he would have lost his position as Archdeacon and would have to face the criminal charges of the civil authorities. His pride and stubbornness sealed his fate.
@jacqui7672
3 жыл бұрын
For a hornytoad you do more than croak with verbiage
@inisipisTV
2 жыл бұрын
I remember in the preface of the book M.R. James said that he intentionally use name of the fictional Barchester as homage to the Barchester towers chronicles. While the cathedral itself in the book is partly based on Canterbury cathedral.
@johnbryant8603
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@steerpike66
4 жыл бұрын
Like the hunter in 'Count Magnus' Haynes ends up literally defaced. James had no objection to bloodshed, as long as people didn't welter in it needlessly.
@javedsultan4830
4 жыл бұрын
He does it fast and without much gruesome details. so it doesn't hurt
@BenjaminBartle-li3pc
2 жыл бұрын
English/ British authors truly are the best in the world. I’m so proud that other countries that think they are great borrow my language and copy what we do whilst trying to claim credit for it. The English doesn’t need to tell the world who they are as the world already knows
@2msvalkyrie529
2 жыл бұрын
Proust ? Victor Hugo.? Thomas Mann ? Edgar Allan Poe? Tolstoy.? de Maupassant..? etc, etc.. I am British but great writers have no nationality.... much as I love Shakespeare I consider Rostand's Cyrano De Bergerac the single greatest play of all time.
@BenjaminBartle-li3pc
2 жыл бұрын
@@2msvalkyrie529 no your totally wrong all great writers are English
@stewartlancaster6155
24 күн бұрын
your language ?
@BenjaminBartle-li3pc
24 күн бұрын
@@stewartlancaster6155 yes cockbreath my language
@BenjaminBartle-li3pc
24 күн бұрын
@@stewartlancaster6155 well who’s else is it?
@appalachiahiker853
3 жыл бұрын
Perhaps MR James symbolise the best the traditional English inteligentisa. A traditionalist, a devout Anglican, a strong anti communist, an English puritan.
@yellowkangdexasthur4904
2 жыл бұрын
They don't make em like him anymore
@2msvalkyrie529
Жыл бұрын
And a devotee of certain practices traditionally associated with the Ancient Greeks ..?
@elizebethpenington3755
6 жыл бұрын
Who is sergeant Michael Bray? Does he have something to do with this story?
@squaretriangle3945
3 жыл бұрын
the reader is in a too relaxed mood to read a ghost story
@yellowkangdexasthur4904
2 жыл бұрын
M.R. James himself was the same way when he would do his own readings. It was just his style.
@Ardepark
Жыл бұрын
There is such a thing as a comfy ghost story you know
@adamhughes4442
29 күн бұрын
Nobody can top Micheal Horden.
@stewartlancaster6155
24 күн бұрын
@@adamhughes4442 even if you spell Michael wrong eh ? basic courtesy to spell someones name correctly.
@stewartlancaster6155
24 күн бұрын
these stories were by tradition read by James to colleagues and students around the fireside on Christmas Eve, I doubt he bellowed and shouted in a dramatic manner whilst reading his works. Most likely after a good dinner with a glass of port and cigars / pipes. Go and watch / listen to American crap...
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