There’s a few ghost stories, the one that fucked me up when I was little. 'Oh Whistle and I'll Come To You My Lad'. Something can betray how sinister it is even at a distance. Something weird happens with M R James, because they’re short - and I don’t read much – and even though it’s in writing, there’ll be a moment, when the person meets the ghost, where you can’t quite believe what you’ve read, you go cold, just for those few lines when you glimpse the ghost for a second, or he describes the ghost face. It's like you’re not reading any more. In that moment it burns a memory into you that isn't yours. He says something like, ‘there’s nothing worse for a human being than to see a face where it doesn’t belong’. But if you’re little, and you’ve got an imagination which is always messing you up and darking you out, things like that are almost comforting to read. Also, there is nothing worse than not recognizing someone you know, someone close, family, seeing a look in them that just isn't them. I was once in a lock-in in a pub and the regulars there and some mates started telling these fucked up ghost stories from real life, maybe that had happened to them, and I swear if you heard them. One girl told me the scariest thing I ever heard. Some of these stories would stop a few words earlier than seemed right, they don't play out like a film, they're too simple, too everyday, slight, those stories ring true and I never forgot them. Sometimes maybe you see ghosts on the underground with an empty Costcutters plastic bag, nowhere to go. They are smaller, about 70% smaller than a normal person, smaller than they were in life.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 19:49, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

wow you type fast

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 19:50, Reply)

Wow
some fingerin' skills.

On da keyboard, of course.
(Phudbree oh man, the Doric Yorick, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 19:53, Reply)

ctl c, ctl v

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 19:53, Reply)

You're
only using one hand, aren't you?
(Phudbree oh man, the Doric Yorick, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 19:55, Reply)

i love to wank over ghost stories

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 19:57, Reply)

If i come back im deffo gonna ghost over wank stories

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 20:00, Reply)

Have
you heard the one about the haunted house?

*watches intently*
(Phudbree oh man, the Doric Yorick, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 20:00, Reply)

I prefer "Bear Hunt"
I'm not scared
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 20:02, Reply)

Is
that rhyming slang?
(Phudbree oh man, the Doric Yorick, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 20:03, Reply)

errrrrrrrrmmmmmmm.........

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 20:03, Reply)

Had
to google(not a euphemism.)

Kid's story?
(Phudbree oh man, the Doric Yorick, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 20:07, Reply)

Yep. even better than the...... dare i say
The very hungry caterpillar
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 20:11, Reply)

ooh
that one really puts the willies up me
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 20:03, Reply)

...The thing I love about M R James, it’s almost like you learn a lesson off the stories, which is to be obsessed with a similar kind of effect until you get it right, because you’re basically circling similar ideas. It’s not about things sounding the same, they’re just, I don’t know what the word would be, singular. Like Photek used to be. The techniques hit you between the eyes because they are so fucking focused, obsessed by the same devices. With M R James, it’s that ghost story thing, someone told me this story, or I knew this person – it’s a device to deliver the story into your world. Urban legends get woven so you're unable to be sure it's untrue. A statistician would say: of all the millions of ghost stories ever told, what percentage would have to be true for ghosts to exist? The answer is that only one story would have to be true. The new tunes are a tiny misdirection, so I can steal away unseen to the next place.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 19:52, Reply)

Amazon
reviews, per chance?
(Phudbree oh man, the Doric Yorick, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 19:53, Reply)

But we all know ghost stories are BS
A bit like someone's FB girlfriend.
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 19:58, Reply)