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Six Ghost Stories
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First published January 1, 1999
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Thomas Graham Jackson
82 books1 followerSir Thomas Graham Jackson, 1st Baronet RA (21 December 1835 – 7 November 1924) was one of the most distinguished English architects of his generation. He is best remembered for his work at Oxford for Oxford Military College as well as the University, notably: the Examination Schools, most of Hertford College (including the Bridge of Sighs over New College Lane), much of Brasenose College, a range at Trinity College, and the Acland Nursing Home in North Oxford. Much of his career was devoted to the architecture of education and he worked extensively for various schools, notably Giggleswick and his own alma mater Brighton College. Jackson designed the former town hall in Tipperary Town, Ireland. He also worked on many parish churches and the college chapel at the University of Wales, Lampeter. He is also famous for designing the chapel (amongst other things) at Radley College. The City of Oxford High School in George Street, Oxford was another building designed by him.
In 1919, Jackson wrote a collection of supernatural stories, Six Ghost Stories. These stories were written under the influence of M.R. James, and Jackson expressed admiration for James' work in the book's introduction.
In 1919, Jackson wrote a collection of supernatural stories, Six Ghost Stories. These stories were written under the influence of M.R. James, and Jackson expressed admiration for James' work in the book's introduction.
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August 6, 2020
Six Ghost Stories from architect T.G. Jackson are rooted firmly in the classic Jamesian ghost story tradition, Jackson mentions his love for these tales in the books preface. Much like James’ ghostly tales, Jackson also seems to have recounted these tales orally to his sons before he wrote them down for the enjoyment of others, but unlike the typical Jamesian spectres, not all of his ghostly apparitions are malevolent. This was Thomas Jackson’s only foray into the realm of the ghostly and the remainder of his bibliography concerns architecture and history. His characters are cut from the typical (and enjoyable) lot of antiquarians, amateur historians, and scholars, poking their noses into old tombs, forgotten churches, and usually disturbs something best forgotten while they’re at it. Jackson’s stories are entertaining and at times quite well written, but I can’t help but feel that he stumbles when introducing the supernatural element into his tales. The denouements often read as a bit cumbersome and he seems to struggle to find the right moment to properly produce a ghastly twist into his tales.
In his excellent introduction, Richard Dalby mentions that the original copy of Jackson’s book was at one point quite easy to come by but is by now quite rare, along with this Ash-Tree Press edition. Dalby’s introduction delves into the life of Jackson and it provides very insightful comments on his main interests which are very useful for putting the stories themselves into the context of the author's life. These six spooky tales might not be the best I’ve come across of the more traditional British ghost stories, but they’re entertaining and should you happen to come across a copy, they’ll provide a gleeful shudder or two on a rainy night.
In his excellent introduction, Richard Dalby mentions that the original copy of Jackson’s book was at one point quite easy to come by but is by now quite rare, along with this Ash-Tree Press edition. Dalby’s introduction delves into the life of Jackson and it provides very insightful comments on his main interests which are very useful for putting the stories themselves into the context of the author's life. These six spooky tales might not be the best I’ve come across of the more traditional British ghost stories, but they’re entertaining and should you happen to come across a copy, they’ll provide a gleeful shudder or two on a rainy night.
January 26, 2018
Thomas Graham Jackson (1835-1924) was a one of the most distinguished architects of the late Victorian period. He was educated at Brighton College, before being awarded a scholarship at Wadham College. Following his graduation, in 1858, he became articled to George Gilbert Scott, the architect largely responsible for the mid-Victorian Gothic Revival. Jackson was a friend of William Morris, and he was a pivotal figure in the Arts and Crafts Moment. He was a keen traveller, an antiquarian, a scholar, and an accomplished writer; his histories were read in Britain, on the Continent and in the States. But he waited until he was eighty-four years old before publishing his only collection of ghost stories.
Six Ghost Stories was published in 1919 by John Murray. The tales it contains are: 'The Lady of Rosemount', 'The Ring', 'A Romance of the Picadilly Tube', 'The Eve of St John', 'Pepina', and 'The Red House'.
In 'The Lady of Rosemount', Henry Charlton is spending the long vacation at Rosemount Abbey, the recently acquired home of his uncle, Sir Thomas Wilmot. The abbey dates from the twelfth century and was once home to Benedictine monks, so old Henry, being an Oxford chap with antiquarian interests, is excited by its architecture. While exploring the ruined abbey-church with his cousins, he discovers a hidden tomb beneath overgrown weeds and brambles, on top of which is the alabaster figure of the Countess Alianora. And in the dead of night, Henry is drawn back to that alabaster beauty... fascinated by her and repelled by her in equal measure.
'The Ring' is set in Tuscany. Dr Morton, an Oxford Don and well-known antiquary, is in Tuscany to study the local folklore - la vecchia religione of the Etruscans. He and his companion, Archie Bryant, a Fellow of the same college, dream of discovering an untouched Etruscan tomb. One moonless night, with the aid of a local woman, they enter such a tomb, but Bryant comes away with a souvenir and lands himself in no end of trouble.
In 'A Romance of the Picadilly Tube', old Mr Markham adds a codicil to his will just prior to his death, and in doing so cuts out his eldest son, George, in favour of his youngest son, James. When the solicitor, Mr Harvey, falls under a tube train at Picadilly and is killed, the signed codicil falls into George's hands, which leaves the disinherited fellow in a quandary.
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Six Ghost Stories was published in 1919 by John Murray. The tales it contains are: 'The Lady of Rosemount', 'The Ring', 'A Romance of the Picadilly Tube', 'The Eve of St John', 'Pepina', and 'The Red House'.
In 'The Lady of Rosemount', Henry Charlton is spending the long vacation at Rosemount Abbey, the recently acquired home of his uncle, Sir Thomas Wilmot. The abbey dates from the twelfth century and was once home to Benedictine monks, so old Henry, being an Oxford chap with antiquarian interests, is excited by its architecture. While exploring the ruined abbey-church with his cousins, he discovers a hidden tomb beneath overgrown weeds and brambles, on top of which is the alabaster figure of the Countess Alianora. And in the dead of night, Henry is drawn back to that alabaster beauty... fascinated by her and repelled by her in equal measure.
'The Ring' is set in Tuscany. Dr Morton, an Oxford Don and well-known antiquary, is in Tuscany to study the local folklore - la vecchia religione of the Etruscans. He and his companion, Archie Bryant, a Fellow of the same college, dream of discovering an untouched Etruscan tomb. One moonless night, with the aid of a local woman, they enter such a tomb, but Bryant comes away with a souvenir and lands himself in no end of trouble.
In 'A Romance of the Picadilly Tube', old Mr Markham adds a codicil to his will just prior to his death, and in doing so cuts out his eldest son, George, in favour of his youngest son, James. When the solicitor, Mr Harvey, falls under a tube train at Picadilly and is killed, the signed codicil falls into George's hands, which leaves the disinherited fellow in a quandary.
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January 2, 2026
Sir Thomas Graham Jackson (1835–1924) no fue un escritor de profesión, sino uno de los arquitectos más distinguidos de la era victoriana y eduardiana en Gran Bretaña. Es conocido fundamentalmente por haber definido el estilo Gótico de Oxford (Anglo-Jackson), siendo el responsable de edificios emblemáticos como las Examination Schools de Oxford y de numerosas restauraciones de catedrales y universidades. Su profundo conocimiento de la arqueología y la arquitectura antigua impregna cada página de sus relatos, donde los detalles técnicos de una bóveda o la heráldica de un vitral no son mero adorno, sino el núcleo mismo del misterio. Jackson escribió estas historias originalmente para el entretenimiento de su círculo familiar, publicándolas al final de su vida.
Publicada originalmente en 1919, esta colección reúne seis relatos que transitan entre lo sobrenatural, lo histórico y lo moral. Siguiendo la tradición de las historias de fantasmas victorianas y eduardianas, el autor sitúa sucesos inexplicables en entornos cotidianos para el lector de su época: desde las silenciosas bibliotecas de Oxford hasta los túneles del metro de Londres o las ruinas de antiguas abadías. A través de objetos malditos, visiones oníricas y encuentros con el pasado, Jackson explora cómo las acciones humanas del presente resuenan con los ecos de quienes nos precedieron, a menudo con consecuencias fatales o redentoras.
La obra de Jackson se erige sobre los mismos cimientos que la de su contemporáneo M.R. James. Sin embargo, Jackson aporta un matiz distintivo; mientras que en James lo sobrenatural es a menudo una fuerza maligna e irracional, en Jackson existe una búsqueda de justicia poética y una conexión emocional más profunda entre el vivo y el espectador del más allá.
Estos son los seis relatos:
The Lady of Rosemount: Un joven anticuario descubre una estatua de alabastro de una condesa pecadora en una abadía en ruinas. El relato destaca por su atmósfera cargada y la forma en que la belleza de la piedra ejerce una fascinación casi hipnótica y aterradora sobre el protagonista, vinculando sueños medievales con la realidad arqueológica.
The Ring: Ambientado en Italia, explora la "vieja religión" etrusca. Un anillo tomado de una tumba desata una maldición que afecta la salud y la cordura del protagonista. Es una pieza excelente sobre el respeto a lo sagrado antiguo y el peligro de la curiosidad académica.
A Romance of the Piccadilly Tube: Quizás el relato más moderno de la colección. Un accidente mortal en el metro de Londres y un documento perdido llevan a una trama de ambición y remordimiento. Aquí, el espectador no es un espectro clásico, sino una conciencia que guía al protagonista hacia la rectitud moral. Este relato, que leí en la antología The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways, es el que me llevó a buscar más historias de este autor.
The Eve of St. John: Un relato de corte histórico donde la lectura de un diario antiguo cobra vida. El protagonista se ve envuelto en una intriga del siglo XVII, borrando las fronteras entre el presente y el pasado a través de la empatía con una víctima de injusticias ancestrales.
Pepina: Situada de nuevo en el contexto de la justicia y el destino, esta historia presenta un fantasma benevolente, una excepción que el propio Jackson menciona en su prefacio, que interviene para salvar a un hombre de cometer un crimen irreparable bajo presión.
The Red House: Este relato está basado en una localización real. Narra la caída de un joven de buena familia arrastrado al crimen por un bandido histórico (Jerry Abershaw). La casa roja actúa como un escenario de fatalidad donde el pasado criminal se manifiesta con una fuerza opresiva.
En resumen, la prosa de Jackson es elegante, precisa y profundamente erudita. Sus descripciones arquitectónicas son de una gran riqueza visual, lo cual no es de extrañar dado su oficio. Aunque sus fantasmas a veces carecen del terror visceral de otros autores del género, ganan en atmósfera y peso moral. Es una lectura interesante para los amantes del relato gótico clásico que aprecian la historia y el arte como vehículos de lo fantástico.
Publicada originalmente en 1919, esta colección reúne seis relatos que transitan entre lo sobrenatural, lo histórico y lo moral. Siguiendo la tradición de las historias de fantasmas victorianas y eduardianas, el autor sitúa sucesos inexplicables en entornos cotidianos para el lector de su época: desde las silenciosas bibliotecas de Oxford hasta los túneles del metro de Londres o las ruinas de antiguas abadías. A través de objetos malditos, visiones oníricas y encuentros con el pasado, Jackson explora cómo las acciones humanas del presente resuenan con los ecos de quienes nos precedieron, a menudo con consecuencias fatales o redentoras.
La obra de Jackson se erige sobre los mismos cimientos que la de su contemporáneo M.R. James. Sin embargo, Jackson aporta un matiz distintivo; mientras que en James lo sobrenatural es a menudo una fuerza maligna e irracional, en Jackson existe una búsqueda de justicia poética y una conexión emocional más profunda entre el vivo y el espectador del más allá.
Estos son los seis relatos:
The Lady of Rosemount: Un joven anticuario descubre una estatua de alabastro de una condesa pecadora en una abadía en ruinas. El relato destaca por su atmósfera cargada y la forma en que la belleza de la piedra ejerce una fascinación casi hipnótica y aterradora sobre el protagonista, vinculando sueños medievales con la realidad arqueológica.
The Ring: Ambientado en Italia, explora la "vieja religión" etrusca. Un anillo tomado de una tumba desata una maldición que afecta la salud y la cordura del protagonista. Es una pieza excelente sobre el respeto a lo sagrado antiguo y el peligro de la curiosidad académica.
A Romance of the Piccadilly Tube: Quizás el relato más moderno de la colección. Un accidente mortal en el metro de Londres y un documento perdido llevan a una trama de ambición y remordimiento. Aquí, el espectador no es un espectro clásico, sino una conciencia que guía al protagonista hacia la rectitud moral. Este relato, que leí en la antología The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways, es el que me llevó a buscar más historias de este autor.
The Eve of St. John: Un relato de corte histórico donde la lectura de un diario antiguo cobra vida. El protagonista se ve envuelto en una intriga del siglo XVII, borrando las fronteras entre el presente y el pasado a través de la empatía con una víctima de injusticias ancestrales.
Pepina: Situada de nuevo en el contexto de la justicia y el destino, esta historia presenta un fantasma benevolente, una excepción que el propio Jackson menciona en su prefacio, que interviene para salvar a un hombre de cometer un crimen irreparable bajo presión.
The Red House: Este relato está basado en una localización real. Narra la caída de un joven de buena familia arrastrado al crimen por un bandido histórico (Jerry Abershaw). La casa roja actúa como un escenario de fatalidad donde el pasado criminal se manifiesta con una fuerza opresiva.
En resumen, la prosa de Jackson es elegante, precisa y profundamente erudita. Sus descripciones arquitectónicas son de una gran riqueza visual, lo cual no es de extrañar dado su oficio. Aunque sus fantasmas a veces carecen del terror visceral de otros autores del género, ganan en atmósfera y peso moral. Es una lectura interesante para los amantes del relato gótico clásico que aprecian la historia y el arte como vehículos de lo fantástico.
December 8, 2017
Sir Thomas has crafted six delightful ghost stories, who take into country homes haunted by ancient evil, the London Underground with a tale a lost will, Italy with a cursed ring and a deadly love affair and dark tale set in the days of George III, with highwaymen, murder and a ghostly avenger.
I liked his prose, clear and sharp, his characters are believeable, as are surroundsing for each story.
This book missed out on a fifth star, for i not did fine the stories as chilling as those written by M.R. James, the Cambridge Don who write stories of the horrors of ancient place.
But these stories entertaining for the Christmas season and the dark nights.
I liked his prose, clear and sharp, his characters are believeable, as are surroundsing for each story.
This book missed out on a fifth star, for i not did fine the stories as chilling as those written by M.R. James, the Cambridge Don who write stories of the horrors of ancient place.
But these stories entertaining for the Christmas season and the dark nights.
October 6, 2012
Jackson wrote these ghost stories when he was 80, after a long and successful career as an architect. The stories are more in the vein of the mid 19 th century ghost story than later writers like MR James. They are written plainly, but deftly and do not lack in atmosphere or chills.
August 6, 2024
A modest collection, with several different types of spectral encounters: antiquarian, inheritance, suicide, and folk horror.
The Lady of Rosemount: An Oxford student's stay at a historic abbey awakens a vengeful spirit with tragic consequences.
The Ring: The removal of an artifact from an Etruscan tomb brings misfortune and haunting visions to an archaeologist.
A Romance of the Piccadilly Tube: A lost codicil and a fatal accident lead to a moral dilemma and a ghostly intervention.
The Eve of St. John: The discovery of an old diary reveals a centuries-old murder and a promise fulfilled from beyond the grave.
Pepina: A guilty conscience and a vengeful spirit lead to the downfall of a successful lawyer.
The Red House: A highway robbery and a murder plot set the stage for a chilling encounter with the supernatural.
The Lady of Rosemount: An Oxford student's stay at a historic abbey awakens a vengeful spirit with tragic consequences.
The Ring: The removal of an artifact from an Etruscan tomb brings misfortune and haunting visions to an archaeologist.
A Romance of the Piccadilly Tube: A lost codicil and a fatal accident lead to a moral dilemma and a ghostly intervention.
The Eve of St. John: The discovery of an old diary reveals a centuries-old murder and a promise fulfilled from beyond the grave.
Pepina: A guilty conscience and a vengeful spirit lead to the downfall of a successful lawyer.
The Red House: A highway robbery and a murder plot set the stage for a chilling encounter with the supernatural.
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October 21, 2021
Ghost stories of the classically English variety: staid but well-written and atmospheric, full of interesting color, if not a bit on the bland side.
These are the kind of ghost stories more about justice than scares. Which actually makes them less effective on the whole. The last tale’s ending was particularly anticlimactic. Most of them are subdued, anyway, but I’d happily read six more if they existed. Just not immediately.
These are the kind of ghost stories more about justice than scares. Which actually makes them less effective on the whole. The last tale’s ending was particularly anticlimactic. Most of them are subdued, anyway, but I’d happily read six more if they existed. Just not immediately.
December 31, 2024
[Wimbledon Society Museum Press] (2008). SB. 140 Pages. Purchased from Richard Dalby’s Library.
The cover design’s dire.
John Grant contributes an eight page Foreword. This simply rehashes the author’s own (immediately ensuing) 30/09/1919 Preface, provides hyper-drab biographical information, offers an unwanted potted history of Eagle House and twice states this to be Jackson’s sole work of fiction, (p. 6 and p. 8). The embedded list of 10+ publications regarding matters architectural should have been hived off to an annexed Bibliography, where it’d be more useful to the interested minority and avoidable for the uninterested majority.
Overall, these are entertaining, well written short stories. “A Romance of the Piccadilly Tube” suffers from reliance upon a set of utterly implausible eventualities.
“The Red House” sports some marvellous turns of phrase…
“…Did Not Dine till Five and in such company as pushed the Bottle about, marvellously quick that about 7-o’ clock His Humble servant was very unfit…”
A good collection.
The cover design’s dire.
John Grant contributes an eight page Foreword. This simply rehashes the author’s own (immediately ensuing) 30/09/1919 Preface, provides hyper-drab biographical information, offers an unwanted potted history of Eagle House and twice states this to be Jackson’s sole work of fiction, (p. 6 and p. 8). The embedded list of 10+ publications regarding matters architectural should have been hived off to an annexed Bibliography, where it’d be more useful to the interested minority and avoidable for the uninterested majority.
Overall, these are entertaining, well written short stories. “A Romance of the Piccadilly Tube” suffers from reliance upon a set of utterly implausible eventualities.
“The Red House” sports some marvellous turns of phrase…
“…Did Not Dine till Five and in such company as pushed the Bottle about, marvellously quick that about 7-o’ clock His Humble servant was very unfit…”
A good collection.
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