The dead of night: how to write the perfect ghost story.
These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde.. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde.. and “Canon Alberic’s Scrap-book.His first two tales, “Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook” and “Lost Hearts,” were composed to be read aloud at an 1897 meeting of the “Chitchat Society,” a short-lived literary club. The group disbanded.They must be contemporary, he decided, with the unprincipled Canon Alberic, who had doubtless plundered the Chapter library of St Bertrand to form this priceless scrap-book. On the first of the paper sheets was a plan, carefully drawn and instantly recognizable by a person who knew the ground, of the south aisle and cloisters of St Bertrand’s.
Canon Alberic's Scrap-book (a.k.a. The Scrap-book of Canon Alberic) (Full Text) (Short story) Date: 1895.. Extract: By what means the papers out of which I have made a connected story came into my hands is the last point which the reader will learn from these pages. But it is necessary to prefix to my extracts from them a statement of the.Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book: A scholar spends time with a skittish overseer in a dilapidated cathedral photographing the interior. He acts a bit too M.R. James wrote antiquarian scary stories and was a huge influence on H.P. Lovecraft.
A very respectable 14 were received by 'Count Magnus' and 'The Mezzotint'; closely followed by 'Canon Alberic's Scrap-book' on 13, 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas' on 12, 'Lost Hearts' with 11 (a surprisingly low score, considering it's the most anthologised MRJ story, according to Mike Ashley's researches), and 'Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance.
