M.R. James - Ghost Stories For Christmas

Montague Rhodes James more than succeeded in this modest ambition. Over a century after their first publication, his Ghost Stories of an Antiquary remain the most admired supernatural tales in the English language.

James first performed them to friends at Christmas in King’s College, Cambridge.

Now, over a century after their first publication, Nunkie Theatre Company have bought two of the eeriest and most entertaining of these masterpieces back to life in a gripping one-man show.

Lost Heartswas among the first stories the author wrote and it offers one of his most memorable villains, the predatory scholar Mr Abney.

It is paired here with perhaps James’s most poignant and personal work:A Warning to the Curious, in which a young archaeologist is haunted and hunted by the guardian of an ancient treasure.

The English seaside has never looked so menacing…