Hello and welcome back to Chronicles, where today we're going to be talking all about

ghost stories of an antiquary by M.R. James. And joining me today is

special guest Chloe from the Splendig Channel Proper Horror Show. Thank you, Chloe. Thank you very much,

Luke. Thanks for having me on. It's a pleasure. No, not at all, because this was your idea.

This was entirely your idea. And I'm grateful to you, extraordinarily grateful, that you

chose it because it wasn't on my radar. It was not something, because I'm unlike you, I'm a

wimpy coward who's not a huge fan of horror or certainly I've never really just thrown myself into

the genre.

Yeah, so to do this and read these stories about the supernatural and written was such style and character as well.

No, it was a real, real treat for me.

Well, I'm delighted the thing is you've been covering serious literature

and I just realised spooky season was've been covering serious literature, and I just realized

spooky season was coming up, and I thought, can I crowbar some fripperies in? Absolutely.

Vaguely seasonal connections and make it happen, but I'm really glad you liked them. Yeah,

well, what I ended up doing was, and because they're short stories, they're all about 15 to 20 pages each,

and I think there's about 7 or 8 in here, what I ended up doing was reading one a night.

And that would always, it seemed to put me in the mind where every time I go to bed,

I'd have varying degrees of terrifying nightmares based on how much

the story had affected me. And so I'm almost able to rank the stories by how bad my dreams

were the night after I read them. Oh, nice. It was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed them. I enjoyed them a lot. So where did you first come into contact with these stories?

First exposure would be the 1970s BBC adaptations. I caught them somewhat after the fact, but I got a bit of a taste for them.

They are these wonderful TV

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