Author: Crumpled Linen Press

  • Volume 1 – ‘Oh, Whistle’ – now available on Kickstarter

    We’re delighted to announce that the first volume of The Haunted Archive – ‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’ – is now live on Kickstarter. And what’s more, we have already met our funding goal. But don’t worry. There are still copies available. So head over to Kickstarter now, secure in the…

  • Launching on Kickstarter in 24 hours

    Thanks for subscribing for updates about The Haunted Archive: The Annotated Ghost Story Manuscripts of M.R. James. Today, we want to give you a sneak peak of the rewards we will be offering when our Kickstarter campaign goes live tomrorow (Thursday 16 April 2026) at 5pmn UK time… But first – be sure to follow the project…

  • Follow our project on Kickstarter

    Great news! Our annotated manuscript edition of ‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’ is one step closer: our Kickstarter project has been approved and our pre-launch page is now live! We will launch the campaign in the next few weeks, and give you and other subscribers to the website advance notice. But for…

  • Cover reveal

    Thanks for your continued interest in The Haunted Archive: The Annotated Ghost Story Manuscripts of M.R. James. The first volume in the series, ‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’, is now going through final fixes and we have submitted the project to Kickstarter. We hope to be able to share the campaign link…

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    Thanks for subscribing

    Thanks to everyone for subscribing for website updates. This week, we’ve been finalising the layout of our first volume – ‘Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’. We’re delighted that King’s College, Cambridge, have granted us permission to print both of James McBryde’s 1903 beautiful illustrations as appeared in Ghost Stories of an…

  • Coming Soon: The Haunted Archive

    Coming Soon: The Haunted Archive

    For years, we’ve been fascinated by literary manuscripts and what they reveal about how stories were written and evolved into the tales we all know and love. Fortunately, many of M.R. James’s ghost story manuscripts survive, but it has been hard for many of us to see them, until now Crumpled Linen Press is a…