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Solahma






RVA

I have been reading lots of James lately and watching the various BBC adaptations available on YT. I thought some of you may never have heard of these but would probably enjoy them.

These are the ones I have enjoyed the most:

Whistle and I’ll Come To You (1968)

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A Warning To The Curious (1972)

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The Tractate Middoth (2013)

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If you’re already a fan of James, what are your favorite stories and/or adaptations?

   
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Ridin' on a Snotling Pump Wagon






Most definitely a Christmas treat!

I've a massive boxed set of them somewhere. Can't single them out, as I'm a binger, so the stories flow into one (in a colossal show of disrespect to the author. I'm a bad mystery).

   
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Lincoln, UK

Love 'em all, and got the boxset the instant it came out.

Favourite? Hard to tell. The slow pace and gradually mounting horror belong to the BBC of my childhood. Maybe A View from a Hill - it was always my favourite of his stories.

If you like James, Dark Encounters by William Croft Dickinson is a great collection of Scottish ghost stories. Although English himself, Dickinson was a much lauded professor of Scottish History at Edinburgh University after WWII, and his tales have the same tone and atmosphere as James' works.

For something a little less sedate, and a lot more bizarre, the Carnacki the Ghost Finder stories by William Hope Hodgson are an Edwardian classic.

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Canterbury

I've got a few of these from the BFI store.

I'm quite partial to both "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas " and "The Ash Tree" -- the latter being something i caught either on a home video cassette or a late night re-run/similar years and years ago and then had that particularly modern joy a few years back when I was finally able to discover what it actually was.

I kinda like the slow pace and the......... inventive.....use of SFX which are of their time/budget.

Watched them with some other friends and they however were not terribly impressed.


.. so we've gone back to watching the old Hellraiser series now

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Solahma






RVA

The original Whistle knocked my socks off. I must have watched it about half a dozen times so far. The effects in it really work for me.

Will definitely look up The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, thanks Red. The Ash Tree was very good, loved the awful little creatures and the terrible corpse they finally discover. Will link it ITT when I am not posting from my phone.

A View From A Hill seems like a good story and I really like Pip Torrens (Bingo!) but the adaptation didn’t work for me. Also couldn't get into the adaptations of The Stalls of Barchester and Casting the Runes.

One story I did not see adapted is The Mezzotint, which I really like as well.


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The Ash Tree (1975)

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Solahma






RVA

The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974)

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Many hearty thanks, Red — I loved this one, too!

In fact, the pace is excellent; the effect is to savor the mounting sense of nervous energy. The bold photography of the abbey is dizzyingly ominous. The only flaw, I think, is the chintzy soundtrack.

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Canterbury

It's a bit different in tone but try checking out "Penda's Fen".

The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
 
   
Made in us
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Solahma






RVA

Certainly will!

   
 
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