Casting The Runes

M R James wrote his ghost stories to perform to friends in the years leading up to WW1. Today they’ve lost none of their power to terrify and amuse. Now Nunkie Theatre Company returns with two more James classics, in another thrilling one-man show

In Casting The Runes you meet the unforgettable Karswell – magic lanternist, occult historian and scourge of academe. It’s partnered here by one of James’s most neglected masterpieces The Residence at Whitminster in which a dark shadow looms over the precinct of a peaceful English church…