Dramas moving on to the medal round include: "Macbeth" (Almost Tangible ), "
Casting the Runes" (Bafflegab Productions), "iHAMLET" (Radio Romania), "Sharon by Katie Holly" (RTEe), "The 70th Anniversary of JEJU 4.3 Docudrama Trilogy 'Suni-Samchon'" (Korean Broadcasting System), and "Dangerous Visions: Shadowbahn" (Corporations for Independent Media).
James shivery "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" - available in many editions, including a particularly handsome new one from the Folio Society - their titles alone convey something of what the author called "a pleasing terror": "Canon Alberics Scrapbook," "Oh, Whistle and Ill Come to You, My Lad," "
Casting the Runes." Despite James pre-eminence among ghost-story authors, "Medieval Studies" is the first full-length book to tease out the connections between his medieval scholarship and his fiction.
This original one-man show is based on vintage classics such as
Casting the Runes and Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad.
An event called Rainy Day Reads will take place at Newcastle University's Robinson Library at 6pm and at 6.15pm Robert Lloyd Parry, of Nunkie Theatre Company, will present the MR James ghost story
Casting the Runes at Newcastle City Library.
On ursday, April 2, Box tale T Soup has two productions - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland at 2.30pm and
Casting the Runes at 8pm.
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Casting The Runes - The Recorded British Abyss 1969-1976' contains several Barnabus tracks such as Apocalypse and Resolute.
The interested, enthralled gazing of his protagonists is stimulated by the uncanny semblance or the interstitial object, the spectres and demons depicted as shadowy, indeterminate forms in woodcuts and antique illustrations, such as in 'Canon Alberic's Scrap-book' and 'Casting the Runes', or as wraiths discerned in 'the tail of the eye', in which the ghostly guardian of the Anglo-Saxon crowns is always visible in 'A Warning to the Curious' (CR, 265).
'Casting the Runes' hinges on both the magical power of words and the power of glances.
In my guise as Mirror mystic Claire Voyant, I set out to divine next Saturday's six winning Lottery numbers by reading the tarot cards,
casting the runes, dream interpretation, studying tea-leaves, numerology and even peering into a crystal ball.
You can just picture Linford Christie
casting the runes to decide whether to defend his Olympic 100 metres title.
Saturday, November 8, sees
Casting the Runes and The Residence at Whitminster, two MR James' ghost stories, performed by storyteller Robert Lloyd Parry.
"I live in Huddersfield and ClarK was for a long time a resident director at YorKshire Television where he made one of his films,
Casting the Runes, in 1979".