#rosemary timperley

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Denys Val Baker (editor) - Phantom Lovers - William Kimber - 1984

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[...] with my head full of ghosts [...]

Rosemary Timperley, Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season; from ‘A Christmas Meeting’, ed. Tanya Kirk

[tinyshe]

Book Review:

I finished a collection of Roald Dahl books (short stories for adults), Penguin Random House UK. There is one under the cover title FEAR (c.2017) which was originally published as ‘Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories’. The only thing he wrote for this one was the Foreword/ Introduction. I usually don’t read such because I have an active enough imagination and live in a house that has tendencies towards the unexplained. But not wanting to waste money (I bought them as a discount bundle), I thought the least I could do was take tiny bites and sit through one reading. They are pretty good selection of talented writers:

W.S. by LP Hartley

Harry by Rosemary Timperley

The Corner Shop by Cynthia Asquith

In the Tube by EF Benson

Christmas Meeting by Rosemary Timperley

Elias and the Draug by Jonas Lie

Playmates by AM Burrage

Ringing the Changes by Robert Aickman

The Telephone by Mary Treadgold

The Ghost of a Hand by J Sheridan Le Fanu

The Sweeper by AM Burrage

Afterward by Edith Wharton

On the Brighton Road by Richard Middleton

The Upper Berth by F Marion Crawford

‘Ringing’ was a little much by the fact that it spawned a series of bad dreams for me but I can’t blame the book; it was because my imagination really latched on to that one to create some scary visuals as it is a little familiar in some ways.

What I like about this collection of stories in FEAR is that there is a refrain from gore, sex and embellished/glorified violence -- very refined, polite company type of ghost stories, if you will, the type you read (aloud perhaps?) all safe and sound under a warm blanket with a hot toddy or spiced cider during the month of October.

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rosemary timperley justin and the witch hardcover dust jacket vintage witch book

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[alcamatree]

"A feeling that, if I close my eyes, there will be no past or future, only an endless present which is time, because it is all we ever have."

Rosemary Timperley; "Christmas Meeting"

[therefugeofbooks]

Here are some Christmas ghost stories for those of you in need of something spooky this season!

Told After Supper by Jerome K. Jerome

The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton by Charles Dickens

The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell

Smee by A. M. Burrage

The Irtonwood Ghost by Elinor Glyn

Horror: A True Tale by John Berwick Harwood

Christmas Meeting by Rosemary Timperley

Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Ghost of Christmas Eve by J. M. Barrie

Thurlow's Christmas Story by John Kendrick Bangs

The Kit-Bag by Algernon Blackwood

The Crown Derby Plate by Marjorie Bowen

[witchyfashion]

The gifts are unwrapped, the feast has been consumed and the fire is well fed – but the ghosts are still hungry. Welcome to the second new collection of dark Christmas stories in the Tales of the Weird series, ushering in a fresh host of nightmarish phantoms and otherworldly intruders bent on joining or ruining the most wonderful time of the year. Featuring classic tales from Algernon Blackwood, Rosemary Timperley, Sheridan Le Fanu and Elinor Glyn alongside rare pieces from the sleeping periodicals and literary magazines of the Library collection, it’s time to open the door and let the real festivities begin.

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[everythingsecondhand]

The House Of Mad Children, by Rosemary Timperley (Robert Hale, 1980).

Cover art by Barbara Walton.

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Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season (British Library Tales of the Weird), edited by Tanya Kirk, British Library Publishing, 2020. Cover design by Mauricio Villamayor with illustration by Sandra Gómez, info: shop.bl.uk.

This titles follows on from previously successful Tales of the Weird Christmas title Spirits of the Season, subverting ideas of traditionally comforting festive anthologies with dark stories of the eerie and uncanny. Exploring stories from beloved authors such as Charles Dickens alongside works by more unexpected names such as Elinor Glyn, plucked from the Library archives, Chill Tidings continues a long tradition of ghost stories for Christmas. The gifts are unwrapped, the feast has been consumed and the fire is well fed – but the ghosts are still hungry. The ghosts are at the door. Welcome to the second new collection of dark Christmas stories in the Tales of the Weird series, ushering in a fresh host of nightmarish phantoms and otherworldly intruders bent on joining or ruining the most wonderful time of the year. Featuring classic tales from Algernon Blackwood, Rosemary Timperley, Sheridan Le Fanu and Elinor Glyn alongside rare pieces from the sleeping periodicals and literary magazines of the Library collection, it’s time to open the door and let the real festivities begin.

Contents: A Strange Christmas Game – Charlotte Riddell The Old Portrait – Hume Nisbet The Real and the Counterfeit – Louisa Baldwin Old Applejoy’s Ghost – Frank R. Stockton The Fourth Wall – A. M. Burrage Transition – Algernon Blackwood The Festival – H.P. Lovecraft The Crown Derby Plate – Marjorie Bowen Green Holly – Elizabeth Bowen Christmas Re-union – Andrew Caldecott A Christmas Meeting – Rosemary Timperley Someone in the Lift – L.P. Hartley Told After Supper – Jerome K. Jerome

[ohmybooknessblog]

Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories

Description

Who better to investigate the literary spirit world than that supreme connoisseur of the unexpected? From the author of such beloved books as James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and The Witches comes a collection of spooky tales carefully curated by the author himself, Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories.

Of the many permutations of the macabre or bizarre, Dahl was always especially fascinated by the classic ghost story. As he relates in the erudite introduction to this volume, he read some 749 supernatural tales at the British Museum Library before selecting the 14 that comprise this anthology. "Spookiness is, after all, the real purpose of the ghost story," Dahl writes. "It should give you the creeps and disturb your thoughts."

For this superbly disquieting collection, Dahl offers favorite tales by such masterful storytellers as E. F. Benson, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Rosemary Timperley, and Edith Wharton.

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[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Rosemary Timperley (editor) - The Fifth Ghost Book - Pan - 1971

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Ghost Stories with Mark Gatiss and Adrian Scarborough

If you want to know which texts have been read during the performance, you can find the list just below:

- The Red Room, written in 1894, by HG Wells. The story was published in the March 1896 edition of The Idler magazine. (Read by Mark Gatiss) - Harry by Rosemary Timperley. The short fiction was first published in "The Third Ghost Book", in 1955. (Read by Adrian Scarborough) - The Patter of Tiny Feet by Nigel Kneale. The story was published in 1949 in the book "Tomato Cain and Other Stories." (Read by Mark Gatiss) - Long distance Call (a.k.a. Sorry, Right Number) by Richard Burton Mattheson. The story was published in "Shock!" in 1951. (Read by Adrian Scarborough) - Antigonish (a.k.a The Little Man Who Wasn't There) by William Hughes Mearns. The poem was written in 1899  (Read by Mark Gatiss)

Enjoy your own reading :)

[dimartblog]

Κινούμενη άμμος 14.10.2018

—με τον Γιώργο Πήττα—

Η Rosemary Timperley γεννήθηκε στο Crouch End του Λονδίνου το 1920 και πέθανε το 1988. Στο μεγαλύτερο μέρος των χρόνων που μεσολάβησαν έγραψε κάπου 66 μυθιστορήματα και μερικές εκατο��τάδες διηγήματα, από τα οποία αρκετά είναι «παράξενες, σκοτεινές, τρομερές ιστορίες φρίκης». Η πιο γνωστή από αυτές τις μικρές ιστορίες είναι ο «Harry», που θα μας οδηγήσει απόψε στο κρεββάτι…

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Rosemary Timperley JUSTIN AND THE WITCH 1979 Vtg Witchcraft Vtg Occult Vtg Witch

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Sunderland Public Library Presents Sunderland Short Stories

Sunderland Public Library Presents Sunderland Short Stories

Sunderland Public Library presents Sunderland Short Stories October 30, 6:30 PM Sunderland Public Library, 20 School Street, Sunderland, MA

Actors Ellen Morbyrne and Linda Putnam usher in Halloween by performing some really spooky ghost stories, written by Rosemary Timperley and Cynthia Asquith.  For more info, call 413-665-2642.

This event is free and open to the public.  Sponsored by the…