Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Hermes Trismegistus, the Alchemical magus to whom Mr. Abney attributes the magical ritual of 'absorbing' the calcined hearts of three children, in order to obtain occult powers. " Lost Hearts " is a ghost story by British writer M. R. James, originally published in 1895. It was later collected in his 1904 book Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.
Lost Hearts is a short film, the third of the British supernatural anthology series A Ghost Story for Christmas.Written by Robin Chapman, produced by Rosemary Hill, and directed by the series' creator, Lawrence Gordon Clark, it is based on the 1895 ghost story of the same name by M. R. James and first aired on BBC1 on 25 December 1973.
M. R. James. Montague Rhodes James OM FBA (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) was an English medievalist scholar and author who served as provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936) as well as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–1915). James's scholarly work is still highly regarded, [1 ...
1971 – Radio 3's Study on 3 presented a four-part analysis of The Horror Story. The second episode ("Ghosts") was transmitted on 23 December 1971 – the day before the first Ghost Story for Christmas aired on BBC1 – and featured a discussion with Jonathan Miller and a reading of "Lost Hearts" by Bernard Cribbins. The series was repeated ...
"Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book" is a horror story by British writer M. R. James, which was written in 1892 or 1893 and first published in 1895 in the National Review. It is his earliest known horror story, and the first (along with "Lost Hearts") to be read aloud to the "Chitchat Society" at Cambridge, where many of his stories made their public debut.
Publisher. Edward Arnold. Publication date. 1931. Publication place. United Kingdom. Media type. Print (hardback) The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James is an omnibus collection of ghost stories by English author M. R. James ', published in 1931, bringing together all but four of his ghost stories (which had yet to be published).
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary is a collection of ghost stories by British writer M. R. James, published in 1904 (some had previously appeared in magazines).Some later editions under this title contain both the original collection and its successor, More Ghost Stories (1911), combined in one volume.
24 December 1971. (1971-12-24) –. present. A Ghost Story for Christmas is a strand of annual British short television films originally broadcast on BBC One between 1971 and 1978, and revived sporadically by the BBC since 2005. [1][2] With one exception, the original instalments were directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark and the films were all ...