donniethecat

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It’s both #Caturday and the birthday of M.R. James (born #OTD in 1862), perhaps the finest author of ghost stories we’ve ever known. This makes it a very good day indeed.

(Donnie, on the right, was born in 2020 but he can be as supernatural as the next cat.)

#CatsOfMastodon #DonnieTheCat #MRJames #GhostStories #GhostStoriesOfAnAntiquary #SupernaturalLiterature #Bookstodon @bookstodon

A scene with a copy of the first edition (although a later printing) of M. R. James’s iconic first collection of tales, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, with its unusual burlap cloth cover. The book stands on its end on the left, and on the right of it is a small resin figurine of James sitting in an armchair reading. Above him, and appearing from the right of the frame, is the head of a cat which peers down on him like a creature of nightmare ready to devour him (except not really; he’s a very nice boy, you know).

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