About us
Working with archives and literary estates, Crumpled Linen Press is a small independent publisher that creates beautiful autograph manuscript facsimiles of great literary works in collectible hardback limited editions.
Manuscripts enlarge our understanding of a writer’s life and work. They capture that magical moment when they first transfered their thoughts to paper, and the changes they made to arrive at the works we know and love.
We aim to bring these manuscripts to a wider audience, beautifully presented as they deserve, and enriched with commentary and interpretation by world-leading scholars.
Introducing the Haunted Archive
During his lifetime, Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) published thirty-four full or fragmentary ghost stories, which were destined to become classics of their kind. Fortunately, over half of the original manuscripts are known to survive in institutional archives or collections.
The Haunted Archive is the first attempt to gather M.R. James’s ghost story manuscripts together in one multi-volume publishing venture. Each volume will cover an individual story and comprise a high quality facsimile of the manuscript itself, supported by extensively annotated transcriptions and contextual scholarly commentary.
The series begins with perhaps the most famous story: ‘Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’, in which the unfortunate Professor Parkins experiences a ghostly encounter which shakes the very foundations of his hitherto fixed and rather too complacent belief systems …
Meet the Team
Crumpled Linen Press is a small independent publisher based in York, UK
Mark Jones and Paul M. Chapman
Series Editors, The Haunted Archive
We are delighted to work with world-leading Jamesian scholars
Jim Bryant
Peter Bell
Thom W. Burgess
Paul M. Chapman
Brian Corrigan
Jon Dear
Helen Grant
Darryl Jones
Mark Jones
Robert Lloyd Parry
Roger Luckhurst
James Machin
Rosemary Pardoe
Edward G. Pettit
Mark Valentine