I love the MR James stories-my favourite is the Stalls of Barchester.
They are all creepily written-and effectively scary
Spoilers"------
The story here felt threadbare. Rich posh-boy buys a mummy and a scroll to resurrect it. We don't see or hear incantations- we only know the mummy is reanimated."
The short running time didn't help-leaving too little time for friendships/relationships to develop.
It basically felt like-"I'm setting my mummy on you. Bang- you're dead" Given more time I'm sure he could have done more with it.
I gave it 5 stars because I love that Mark Gattis is keeping the Christmas ghost story tradition alive.
(And probably because his other work is so good).
They are all creepily written-and effectively scary
Spoilers"------
The story here felt threadbare. Rich posh-boy buys a mummy and a scroll to resurrect it. We don't see or hear incantations- we only know the mummy is reanimated."
The short running time didn't help-leaving too little time for friendships/relationships to develop.
It basically felt like-"I'm setting my mummy on you. Bang- you're dead" Given more time I'm sure he could have done more with it.
I gave it 5 stars because I love that Mark Gattis is keeping the Christmas ghost story tradition alive.
(And probably because his other work is so good).