J Atkinson Grimshaw, 'Shipping on the Clyde' Is it still possible to write ghost stories or are they mere period curiosities? Let me start by saying that the period and the milieu from which MR James’s stories spring has a strong attraction for me. Things Edwardian afflict me with acute nostalgia (nostalgia, as its name … Continue reading ‘The sound must mean mischief’ : M R James and the Age of Uncertainty