Tedious Brief Tales Of Granta And Gramarye
- Written by Arthur Gray
- ISBN: 0-9520492-0-1 (978-0-9520492-0-3)
- Format: Hardcover, viii+105pp
- Publish Date: January 1993
- Publication Type: Collection
- Original Price: £15.00
- Genre: Supernatural Fiction
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Arthur Gray
Arthur Gray (1852–1936), Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, published these antiquarian ghost stories in 1919 as “Ingulphus the Chronicler.” The tales draw on college lore, alchemy, and necromancy in a vein close to M.R. James, whom Gray knew.
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Arthur Gray, Master of Jesus College, published these Cambridge hauntings in college magazines from about 1910 under the name Ingulphus the Chronicler, a nod to the unreliable medieval chronicler of Crowland. Secret societies, college alchemists, and fenland necromancy share M.R. James’s antiquarian manner but are rooted in Jesus College gossip and local legend rather than East Anglian churches.
Edition Details
- Limited to 300 numbered copies; facsimile reprint of the 1919 Ingulphus the Chronicler edition, adding a tenth story not in the original.
- Bound in pictorial boards; illustrated by E. Joyce Shillington Scales; no dust jacket.
- Published in January 1993 as a collaboration between the Ghost Story Society, Richard Dalby, and David Tibet.
Contents:
- Introduction (Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye) essay (1993)
- To Two Cambridge Magicians poem (1915)
- The Everlasting Club (1910)
- The Treasure of John Badcoke (1910)
- The True History of Anthony Ffryar (1911)
- The Necromancer (1912)
- Brother John’s Bequest (1912)
- The Burden of Dead Books (unknown)
- Thankfull Thomas (1914)
- The Palladium (1915)
- The Sacrist of Saint Radegund (1911)
- Suggestion (1925)
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