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 with you very soon.

In the meantime, we wanted you to be the first to see the cover, so here it is!

We’re delighted that the excellent Sarah Coomer gave us permission to use her fantastic illustration (prints of which are available from Sarah’s Etsy shop) on the dustjacket. Given thant you should never judge a book by its cover, Sarah has set the bar very high. We’ll be absolutely delighted if readers feel the finished book lives up to Sarah’s work.

We are now working through final edits with the leading Jamesian experts who have contributed annotations and articles. Soon you’ll be able to read what Robert Lloyd Parry has to say on the real-life ‘Burnstow’, Rosemary Pardoe on that tantalising latin inscription, and Mark Valentine on the mystery of the Templars, and much more.

The Kickstarter campaign will be trailed shortly, but we will send you advance notice of the exact date and time that the campaign goes live so you can place your order. We’ve created an ‘early bird’ discount that we hope will benefit website subscribers as our thank you for your interest.