Nunkie Theatre Present
A Pleasing Terror
Two ghost stories by M R James
Performed by R M Lloyd Parry

★★★★★ "Wonderful, magical storytelling" - The Daily Mail

Over a century after they were first published, the ghost stories of M R James retain their power to terrify and amuse. This gripping one man show retells two of the earliest and eeriest.

In Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book, a young Cambridge antiquary discovers the devil in the details of an old book in a medieval town in the French Pyrenees…

In The Mezzotint a ghoulish revenge is enacted within a work of art, before the helpless eyes of a museum curator in Oxford…

The stories are performed by Robert Lloyd Parry, who bears a striking physical resemblance to James. In 2014 Lloyd Parry appeared as the author in Mark Gatiss's BBC2 Documentary, M R James: Ghost Writer.

His candlelit performances have been covered by The New Yorker, The Fortean Times, The Spectator, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Washington Post, The Daily Mail, The Guardian and The Morning Star. 

“Lloyd Parry [is] one of the country’s most idisyncratic and underrated performers…" - TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT