CASTING THE RUNES

Walker Theatre

CASTING THE RUNES
TWO GHOST STORIES BY M R JAMES

M R James wrote his ghost stories to perform to friends in the years leading up to WW1. Today they’ve lost none of their power to terrify and amuse. Now Nunkie Theatre Company returns with two more James classics, in another thrilling one-man show.

In Casting the Runes we meet the unforgettable Mr. Karswell – magic lanternist, occult historian and scourge of academe. It’s partnered here by James’s most neglected masterpiece, The Residence at Whitminster, in which a dark shadow looms over the precinct of a peaceful English church…

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