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Pleasing Terrors: the MR James Festival

As a part of the inaugural Pleasing Terrors: The MR James Festival, we invite you to join us in a two-part symposium discussion of Britain’s most celebrated creator of classic ghost stories. 

 

PANEL 1: MR James - The Writer, His Life and Times

1:30 - 3:00 PM

Speakers: Paula Dempsey, Tracy Hayes, Darryl Jones, Marisa Linton

Moderator: Elena Tchougounova-Paulson

 

PANEL 2: MR James' Writing and Jamesian fiction - The Classic Ghost Story Tradition 

3.30 - 5:00 PM

Speakers: Helen Grant, Tim Jarvis, Reggie Oliver

Moderator: Dan Coxon

 

 

CREATIVE TEAM

Paul St John Mackintosh, Managing Director

TL Wiswell, Associate Director

 

Content warnings: Supernatural themes

Fancy dinner and a show? Book at table at the Drayton Arms pub now and enjoy the pre-theatre menu before heading upstairs

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