There is a film adaptation, but read the book first: you wonโt be able to put this page-turner down until the very end!
Book review: ‘The Wonder’ by Emma Donoghue
Book review: ‘The Cathedral’ by Hugh Walpole
"We translate more easily than we know our gratitude to God into our admiration of ourselves." Hugh Walpoleโs 1922 novel The Cathedral is one of the best works of this, now sadly and unjustly neglected, author. Regular readers of the Grammaticus blog hopefully havenโt missed the December 2022 release of his short ghost story The …
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Queer in more ways than one: “Carmilla”, a Gothic literary classic
Think of literary vampires, and everyoneโs first association is bound to be Bram Stokerโs Dracula hailing from that dark, mystifying land of Transylvania. Enormously influential as it has been, Dracula had a notable antecedent in the form of an even more ground-breaking, yet lesser known, vampiric antagonist - Carmilla - created by the Irish novelist …
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Ghost stories of M R James
Montague Rhodes James was a British writer and scholar. While his academic work in the field of Medieval Studies remains relevant to this day, it is something altogether different that he is now best known for; namely, his ghost stories.
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