TUESDAY, October 8th at 7pm: THE SPOOKY CLASSICS - M.R.James

Caledonia presents ghostly stories from some of the classics of the genre.  Each week features a
different author associated with tales of the macabre, Gothic, or plain old spooky.

THIS WEEK: 
M.R. James  

James redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. However, James's protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story".

Caledonia live on Stream.

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THURSDAY, December 27th, 2pm at The Dickens Project: GHOST STORIES!

We take a different path at The Dickens Project, sharing ghost stories from a number of authors whose names are NOT Charles Dickens.

Elrik Merlin presents two selections from the work of English novelist Alan Garner: the Arthurian fantasy Tarn Wethelan, and The Smoker.  The author is best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. Much of Garner's  work is firmly rooted in the landscape, history and folklore of his native county of Cheshire, North West England, being set in the region and making use of the native Cheshire dialect.

Caledonia Skytower presents M.R. James' 1925 short story A Warning to the Curious; the tale of Paxton, an antiquarian and archaeologist who holidays in "Seaburgh" and inadvertently stumbles across one of the three lost crowns of Anglia, which legendarily protect the country from invasion. Upon digging the crown up, Paxton is stalked by its supernatural guardian.

Presented live on stream in Dickens Square.

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WEDNESDAY, December 27th: Two Sessions at 1PM & 7PM

@ 3PM: GHOST STORIES ~ More Than Dickens!

Montague Rhodes James OM FBA, published under the name M. R. James, was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge, and of Eton College. James perfected a method of story-telling which has since become known as Jamesian. According to James, the story must "put the reader into the position of saying to himself, 'If I'm not very careful, something of this kind may happen to me!'"  He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre.

Dubhna Rhiadra, live in voice, in Dickens Square on LEA 7.
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@ 7PM: IF IT'S WINTER, WHY CAN'T IT BE CHRISTMAS? 
In C.S. Lewis' The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe, the land of Narnia is plunged into winter, but it's never Christmas.  How does that work?

Caledonia with selections from C.S. Lewis' classic, live in voice.
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