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This episode Mike and Will examine Curfew by Lucy M. Boston, a childhood tale of haunted bells, unearthed coffins and post-Jamesian highjinx aplenty.

Big thanks to Debbie Wedge for providing the readings for this episode.

Show notes:

Curfew by Lucy M. Boston – read by Robert Lloyd Parry (Youtube.com)
The text of this story is not freely available online for copyright reasons, but why not enjoy this live-streamed reading of the story from the quintessential Jamesian actor, Robert Lloyd Parry?
About Lucy M. Boston (Wikipedia)
Lucy M. Boston had an eventful life, from scandalising her strict Wesleyan family by abandoning their religion, to serving as a volunteer nurse in Normandy during the first world war and later studying art in France, Italy, Austria and Hungary. She is most famous for her Children of Green Knowe series of children’s books which were set in a fictionalised version of her home for over 50 years, Hemingford Grey manor in Cambridgeshire.
Norton Priory, Cheshire (Wikipedia)
According to Robert Lloyd Parry’s excellent introduction to the Swan River Press edition of Curfew and Other Tales, the locations in Curfew were almost certainly based on Norton Priory in Cheshire. Lucy M. Boston lived within sight of this decaying manor house during the 1920’s, shortly before its demolition, and it certainly fits the descriptions in the story very closely.
Folklore related to this story (DarkOxfordshire.co.uk)
In this episode we compare the events of the story to various pieces of English folklore from our area of the country, including curfew bell traditions, haunted bells in ponds, black dogs and even mysterious deaths in bell towers.
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone (bbc.co.uk)
The latest Mark Gatiss Ghost Story for Christmas will be based on ‘Man-Size in Marble’ by E. Nesbit.
Hypnogoria’s The Horrors of Christmas Advent Calendar (hypnogoria.com)
This Christmas Jim Moon has produced a series on the origins and history of Christmas horror movies. Highly recommended!

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Episode 99 – Curfew by Lucy M. Boston

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Episode 99 – Curfew by Lucy M. Boston

Episode 98 – The Nature of the Evidence by May Sinclair

Episode 97 – Mark Gatiss’s Lot 249

Episode 96 – The Real and the Counterfeit by Louisa Baldwin

Episode 95 – The Weird of the Walfords by Louisa Baldwin

Episode 94 – Exploring Eleanor Scott with Vicky Margree and Dan Orrells

Episode 93 – Count Magnus Awakens

Episode 92 – Randalls Round by Eleanor Scott

Episode 91 – Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley

Episode 90 – Right Through My Hair by Noel Boston

Episode 89 – Cushi

Episode 88 – Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book Revisited

Episode 87 – Mark Gatiss’s The Mezzotint

Episode 86 – Lucky’s Grove by H.R. Wakefield

Episode 85 – The Tudor Chimney by A.N.L. Munby

Episode 84 – Bosworth Summit Pound

Episode 83 – A Room in a Rectory

Episode 82 – Echoes from the Abbey

Episode 81 – The Demoniac Goat by M.P. Dare

Episode 80 – The Sundial by R.H. Malden

Episode 79 – The Seventeenth Hole at Duncaster

Episode 78 – Brother John’s Bequest by Arthur Gray

Episode 77 – The Man with the Roller by E.G. Swain

Episode 76 – How Fear Departed From the Long Gallery

Episode 75 – The Traveller by R.H. Benson

Ep74 – Review of Martin’s Close on BBC4

Episode 73 – Out of the sea by A.C. Benson

Episode 72- By One, By Two and By Three by Adrian Ross

Episode 71 – An Antiquary’s Ghost Story by Augustus Jessopp

Episode 70 – Negotium Perambulans by E.F. Benson

Episode 69 – Smee by A.M. Burrage

Episode 68: The Death Mask by Mrs H.D. Everett

Episode 67 – Through a Glass Darkly conference report

Episode 66 – The Monkey’s Paw

Episode 65 – The Story of the Moor Road

Episode 64 – Featherston’s Story by Mrs Henry Wood

Episode 63 – Christmas Re-union by Sir Andrew Caldecott

Episode 62 – The Upper Berth by F. Marion Crawford

Episode 61 – The Open Door by Margaret Oliphant

Episode 60 – The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens

Episode 59 – The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Episode 58 – The Familiar by J Sheridan Le Fanu

Episode 57 – The White and the Black by Erckmann-Chatrian

Episode 56 – A Relation of the Apparition of Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe

Episode 55 – A Vignette

Episode 54 – Eton and Kings, part two

Episode 53 – Jacqueline Simpson interview

Episode 52 – Eton and King’s, part one

Episode 51 – M.R. James Conference 2016

Episode 50 – A Night in King’s College Chapel

Episode 49 – Twelve Medieval Ghost Stories

Episode 48 – Auditor and Impresario

Episode 47 – The Five Jars, Part 3

Episode 46 – The Five Jars, Part 2

Episode 45 – Conference Report: MR James and the Modern Ghost Story

Episode 44 – The Five Jars, Part 1

Episode 43 – The Malice of Inanimate Objects

Episode 42 – Christmas bonus – The goblins who stole a sexton by Charles Dickens

Episode 41 – The MR James and Charles Dickens Christmas Special (with last minute gift guide!)

Episode 40 – The Experiment

Episode 39 – Merfield Hall

Episode 38 – The Game of Bear

Episode 37 – Wailing Well

Episode 36 – Suffolk and Norfolk

Episode 35 – Rats

Episode 34 – Marcilly-le-Hayer (with Helen Grant)

Episode 33 – Mark Gatiss’ The Tractate Middoth

Episode 32 – An Evening’s Entertainment

Episode 31 – A Warning to the Curious – Part 2 of 2

Episode 30 – A Warning to the Curious – Part 1 of 2

Episode 29 – A View from a Hill

Investigating James: an interview with Patrick J. Murphy and Fred Porcheddu

Episode 28 – After Dark in the Playing Fields

Episode 27 – There was a man dwelt by a churchyard

Episode 26 – A Neighbour’s Landmark

Interview with A.N. Donaldson

Episode 25 – The Uncommon Prayer-book

Episode 24 – The Haunted Dolls’ House