The Three Hares Blog | writing – and photographs – by Lisa (Lee) Tulfer
One of my audiobook listeners contacted me to ask whether there was a printed list of sources available for people coming at the book that way. It was an excellent question, which made me realise that background material indeed did not seem to be available for audiobookers… So, here’s a PDF of Ghostland ‘s sources, in case it’s of use to anyone.
New Year’s Eve is here, a night that features in an excellent ghost story by R. H. Malden, ‘Between Sunset and Moonrise’. I’ve written a short piece about it below, but to avoid spoilers you might want to read the original story first. It can be found on Project Gutenberg, here at: https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605461h.html
Richard Henry Malden trod the same educational path as his mentor and friend, M. R. James, swapping Eton for King’s College in 1895. After graduating from Cambridge he became a deacon in Manchester, eventually rising to the rank of the Dean of Wells in 1933, a role he served until just before his death in 1951. R. H. Malden published only one collection of supernatural tales, Nine Ghosts , which was brought out during WWII by James’s publisher Edward Arnold, who made grand claims on the dustjacket: “Dr Jam
The Three Hares Blog | writing – and photographs – by Lisa (Lee) Tulfer