Oh Whistle and I'll come to you my Lad

WELCOME TO DECEMBER PROJECT! this explanation/intro will be posted before each day’s short story. scroll down to get to the story-review. this is the FOURTH year of me doing a short story advent calendar as my december project. for those of you new to me or this endeavor, here’s the skinny: every day......more

This short is perhaps the best known of M R James stories certainly for Christmas. Certainly someone has blown a whistle in the UK as winds are high and this added to the atmosphere. Unlike many James stories this doesn’t have the sense of uncertainty or ambiguity. It’s a good old fashioned ghost st......more

This short story really pleasantly surprised me. Not only was it atmospheric and eerie, with a fantastic buildup of tension to the genuinely frightening climax, but it was full of unexpected humour and great characters, which were well-developed despite this story's short length. This was my first fo......more

The fiend of fear grovels for a feast in every quaint story & smooth rabbit’s foot. There are too few members of the literary world who understand what it means to induce fear. The raving lunacy behind bars, & the craven despair of the ghoulish soul neither incite torment nor do they gnaw the ribcag......more