Supernatural Tales

'These are stories firmly in the M.R. Jamesian tradition with a great sense of place and time (so Jamesian that Rosemary Pardoe, renowned M.R. James expert and head-honcho at Ghosts & Scholars, almost insisted on providing a rather original introduction… alongside Josh… a sort of question and answer that tells us a lot about Josh and his inspirations).' Thus spake Rob Morgan of Sarob . Here indeed is a very good collection of stories that I think MRJ himself would have approved of. Josh Reynolds had done an excellent job of taking a believable character - tough, sensible, and humane Artemis Whitlock - and setting her on a kind of quest that brings her into contact with Things along the weirder byways of folklore. The Introduction reveals that Artemis was partly inspired by Honoria Glossop, one of Wodehouse's most formidable women. She's very much the kind of gal you'd want on your side in a pinch. Cover by Paul Lowe The stories are set in the years following the...