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I live and work in London. I'm a freelance proofreader and web editor with extensive experience, although currently working on contract for the civil service.

I have a degree in English and American Literature. I read too much, play too many video games, and love the theatre.

I also write on ciao and dooyoo.

My passion is ...

Old horror films, history, Shakespeare

I know too much about ...

See above

My parents always told me ...

Don't go into teaching

My childhood ambition ...

Changeable, but usually involved being Han Solo

Why I write ...

It stops the brain from rotting

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Grant Morrison/Blu-Rays/Instrumental easy listening

Arts & Humanities > Horror, Mystery & Suspense An assessment of the ghost stories of M.R. James

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M.R. James wrote some of the most celebrated ghost stories in English. A century since the first were published, they still have the power to chill the blood. James himself was a scholar and Provost of Eton. His ghost stories were not his chief priority; he read them out to his friends at Christmas for their amusement. The stories usually have predictable plots, featuring someone – often an academic or a clergyman – searching for lost knowledge, or old treasure, or archaeological trinkets, and awakening sinister forces which implacably track them down. They are usually set in E...

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