Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture, Trinity College Dublin. M. R. James, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle - and fountain pens.https://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3mwlmwlbups2jHem hem. A seriously gratifying review from someone who really knows what they’re talking about. [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Sep 2026 15:28 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwlmwlbups2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3mw3qxad3c223Congratulations to @cferguson.bsky.social on her amazing scholarly edition of Conan Doyle’s unforgettably bizarre spiritualist novel. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Sep 2026 07:58 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw3qxad3c223https://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3mw2dqsitm223Hem hem. Me and him again. https://crimereads.com/darryl-jones-on-discovering-the-remarkable-ghost-stories-of-m-r-james/21 Sep 2026 18:29 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw2dqsitm223https://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3mvqm26y64k26Hem hem. Me and him have an advert. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Sep 2026 21:31 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvqm26y64k26https://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3mvdckgzljs2mHem hem. ‘An excellent new biography by Darryl Jones. … A very good book about a very interesting man’ https://unherd.com/2026/09/mr-james-still-haunts-england/?set_edition=en&tl_inbound=1&tl_groups%5B0%5D=18743&tl_period_type=3&utm_source=UnHerd+Today&utm_campaign=026904dec4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_09_12_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_79fd0df946-026904dec4-3487990612 Sep 2026 14:36 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvdckgzljs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3mvcvbioz422xThings I was frightened of as a child: 1. Iain Cuthbertson in Children of the Stones 2. Asbestos 3. The Green Death 4. Whenever the heroes split up to look for something on TV. Never ends well. 5. Phantom Hounds 6. Rabies 7. Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - a song about child abandonment 8.The Black Nun [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Sep 2026 10:38 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvcvbioz422xhttps://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3mva656jflk23Spotted in the wild: Heffer’s, Cambridge.11 Sep 2026 08:39 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mva656jflk23https://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3mv5gi5jqns2v‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ is published today! Seven years in the writing, many more in the planning, and - here it is!10 Sep 2026 06:30 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv5gi5jqns2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3mutjuwzbec2m“ [Dylan] Thomas’s final words were apparently “the End is in Eden” which, as Eagleton tartly points out, is just one more of the old windbag’s “metaphysical vacuities”. Now then, Kathryn Hughes and The Guardian, surely you know that referring to a Welsh writer as a windbag is racist stereotype?06 Sep 2026 08:05 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mutjuwzbec2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3muteezmy422mHem hem again. Eamon Duffy, no less. ‘Exhaustively researched … It is hard to imagine anyone producing a more thorough, well-documented and sympathetic biography than this one’. https://www.thetablet.co.uk/books/m-r-james-ghost-stories-were-masterly-but-did-he-have-an-inner-life/06 Sep 2026 06:26 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3muteezmy422mhttps://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3mutdzh7cps2mHem hem. ‘It is difficult to imagine a better account of James’s life ever being written.’ [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Sep 2026 06:20 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mutdzh7cps2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3mus2vum6u22wHem hem. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Sep 2026 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mus2vum6u22whttps://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3muphekuc4s2gHem hem [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2026 17:09 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3muphekuc4s2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3muolb2evjs2iHem hem [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2026 08:46 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3muolb2evjs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3muoecof65c2iI’ll be there, talking about the Battle of Omdurman, and Corporal Jones. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2026 06:42 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3muoecof65c2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3muf45w4q3c2qMe, the vase, the seersucker suit, and M. R. James.31 Aug 2026 14:22 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3muf45w4q3c2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3mu2agrirl222Hem hem. Me and him, in Haunted Magazine!27 Aug 2026 06:39 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2agrirl222https://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3mtsqci4erc27The Sergeants’ XI: 1. Rock, 2. John, 3. B. A. Baracus, 4. Windsor Davies, 5. Slaughter, 6. Bob Cryer (s), 7. Bilko, 8. Wilson, 9. John Singer, 10. Phil Esterhaus, 11. Pepper. Manager: Sir Malcolm.24 Aug 2026 07:02 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtsqci4erc27https://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3mtqdnjcl4s2lGordon XI: 1. Banks, 2. Greenidge, 3. Hannah, 4. Lightfoot, 5. General Of Khartoum, 6. Brown, 7. Strachan, 8. Noelle (c), 9. George Lord Byron, 10. Honeycombe, 11. Moron. Manager: Commissioner.23 Aug 2026 08:10 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtqdnjcl4s2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3mtnx4fzonk2pGraham XI: 1. Billy, 2. Chapman, 3. Price, 4. Bond Organization, 5. Alexander Bell, 6. Greene, 7. Mr La-di-da Gunner, 8. Garden (c), 9. Parsons, 10. Crowden, 11. Galloping Gourmet Kerr. Manager: Kenneth.22 Aug 2026 09:20 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtnx4fzonk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3mtl7ewil2k2dMo XI: 1. Tucker, 2. Bowra, 3. Szyslak, 4. Lord Glasman, 5. Mowlam (c), 6. Farah, 7. Dr Desmond, 8. Chevalier, 9. F. D., 10. Salah, 11. Lipman. Manager: Ali Jinnah.21 Aug 2026 07:10 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtl7ewil2k2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3mtioryraes2aBaz XI: 1. Humphries, 2. Fawlty, 3. Norman, 4. White, 5. Rathbone, 6. J. M., 7. D’Oliveira, 8. Gibb, 9. Luhrman, 10. Obama (c), 11. Brush. Manager: Hume.20 Aug 2026 07:08 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtioryraes2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/profdarryljones.bsky.social/post/3mtg5u2x4lk2hCliffs and Clives XI: 1. Barker, 2. Barnes, 3. Lazarenko, 4. Dunn, 5. T. Ward, 6. Of India, 7. Thorburn, 8. James (c), 9. Revill, 10. Clavin, 11. Jimmy. Manager: Michelmore.19 Aug 2026 07:00 +0000at://did:plc:cstemi7prfmfdyq2hevsel3a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtg5u2x4lk2h