Friday 20 September 2013

The Christmas Ghost Stories of Lawrence Gordon Clark - New Book!

Well. the shops are filling up with selection boxes and cards featuring improbably well-fed robins. So we know what's bearing down on us like a tinselly Juggernaut of consumerism. Fortunately some people have good ideas for Christmas prezzies (though booze is always acceptable, hint hint). Those sons of fun at Spectral Press, for instance, are offering this. A hefty collector's item, indeed.

CONTENTS:Foreword by MARK GATISS 
Introduction by TONY EARNSHAWSeven short stories by M. R. JAMES: The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral, The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, A Warning to the Curious, The Ash Tree, Lost Hearts, Casting the Runes, Count Magnus 
Exclusive new introductions to each story by LAWRENCE GORDON CLARK 
Count Magnus teleplay by BASIL COPPER 
Lost Hearts short stage play by LAWRENCE GORDON CLARK 
Filmography, awards, of LAWRENCE GORDON CLARK by TONY EARNSHAW
Q&A with LAWRENCE GORDON CLARK by TONY EARNSHAW
It will be available in three editions: LIMITED SIGNED SLIPCASED HARDBACK (£75 – 50 only), LIMITED UNSIGNED HARDBACK (£35 – 100 only) and UNLIMITED PAPERBACK (£20). Postage will be extra. Only the highest production values will go into the making of this book— there will be NO eBook of this as we think that only physical books will work best for the nature of the material.This will be a definitive volume – the last word on Lawrence Gordon Clark’s career in ground-breaking supernatural television.

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