![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "the writing of the book became a way of reclaiming something that had been lost to me. He was asked if he'd ever considered writing a book about James and "other writers of the weird and eerie." The idea appealed, especially a book that would be "concerned with ghost stories and films and the places around Britain that fed into them." In Ghostland, as he notes, since childhood he'd been "obsessed" with the supernatural and horror as a four year-old, as his story goes, while on holiday in Wales at Caernarfon Castle, he'd asked the tour guide if there might be a chance they would see "the Spectral lady." He was also, as he puts it "part of what The Fortean Times has come to term the ' haunted generation'." More to the point though, he says that he "only wanted to write about the subject if I could bring something of myself to the narrative," and after doing James, Great Livemere, and wrote about it on his website, after which he was contacted by a managing editor from Harper Collins. ![]() In an interview at Folk Horror Revival, the author explains how he had gone to the childhood home of M.R. ![]()
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