Live eventScarborough
Robert Lloyd Parry: A Pleasing Terror
Stephen Joseph TheatreScarborough
9 December 2026
1 scheduled performance
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Over 120 years 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…
