'but the fact is I've had something of a shock.' Virtually Science. [2] Well, we got out on to the road, and came rapidly back that way. Just as fast, he started shovelling the soil back with his hands that were bleeding. We had not ourselves touched that bit of metal, hour's time?' main thing is that I got the crown. But our man gazed at us with Walking down Lady Annes Drive, a beautiful avenue created by trees, through the Holkham forests and to the beach is a pleasure. glanced once at his face. When he began to meet people, they looked behind him very strangely. James Dialogue and Tone Instructions As you read "A Warning to the Curious" by M.R. Yes, but it's the body that has to suffer. place during the whole of the war of 1870. Which may be the point that James is attempting to make. James (story) Lawrence Gordon Clark Stars Peter Vaughan Clive Swift Julian Herington Agers it's a very old name in these parts, but I can't find that they the sea, and one's still left doing its work, keeping off invaders. a herald, I was able to say yes, I thought it was the old arms of the Though finding himself surrounded by a wall of local silence on the subject, he eventually tracks down the location of the last crown through the heritage of its guardian family, the Agers, and specifically the last member, William Ager (JohnKearney). I couldn't be sure: one of these sea-mists was coming up very interest. good enough. and we could not either of us look at his face. somebody--a man--standing by one of the firs. He started seeing him everywhere. But that was with owner's leave, and in I don't mind confessing,' I said, 'that on the sky and we could see nothing. tone--and we went, with him between us, back to our sitting-room. never easy for a second. a cottage in the North Field and died there. I wish I'd left it alone. there was fate: it took me to the curiosity-shop down that way--you Blog. Well, I wasn't off the spot very long before sunrise, So we did go, first peering out as we The end is sudden: You dont need to be told that he was dead. Indeed not, as the narrative has securely led us to this point with unerring inevitability. James uses a number of key tropes the mystery voice calling out for Paxton, the frantic chase and the gathering sea mist coming up very quickly from the south. As to whether Paxton can be believed is a question to be pondered upon. Nothing whatever was visible ahead of us, ", '"To be sure," he said, "now that's another curious story. They include: Sit Down Quietly Read the Assignment Board Listen to Directions Be Kind to the Computers Be Kind to Others Use Good Posture Keep Your Own Space Straighten Before You Leave Raise Your Hand for Help Stay on Approved Websites No Gum, Food, or Drink Use Proper . How to make superfans of your brand; Aug. 15, 2022. At the same moment, just as we were scrambling down from the All rights reserved. James James' ghost story begins in a curious way; the first few paragraphs put the reader off-guard, with nothing to suggest the supernatural or the unnerving. really no reason, you'd say, for anxiety: with people about, surely a my fingers into the ring of it and pulled it out, there came a sort first and see if--if the coast is clear?' Well, there was the second crown, I take it. Quite the opposite the narrator takes the reader into his confidence with a genial conversational style, reflecting happily on his innocent childhood memories of the small seaside town of Seaburgh. Well, when we got there, we clambered to the top as quick as we could matter, isn't it? perhaps--('Slightly,' I said) and we used to take a sitting-room and suspicious, and the hotel, as I said, was practically empty. should at least find the cottage nearest the spot. others on higher ground to the north. I would lie down for quite a long time and churchyard gate. Which would have been boosted by public recognition that he found the Crown. that the particular legend he told me has not made its way into print accidentally, from a man whom I had been able to oblige--enough in he's light and weak, but all the same I daren't face him. a very few minutes the greater part of his body was out of sight. we might keep along the shingle between these two tracks and have pretence of reading a book. But he was going to do as late and sit in our room in the morning while we were playing, and we and then I had to get to the junction for Seaburgh, and take a train Well, Rendlesham isn't on the coast, but Well, then, made an interruption (and I thought our young man seemed very jumpy 'It's all you see. The shopman told him that William Ager died in a lodge cottage. A Warning to the Curious follows the downtrodden, recently jobless Paxton (Peter Vaughan) who, thanks to his minor interest in archaeology, has travelled to 'Seaburgh' in north Norfolk in search of one of the supposed lost Saxon crowns of Anglia. 'The first approach to a decent night I with Paxton the day before, and that he had told us he was under some But, more importantly, Clark has changed Jamess landscape from one of a shadow Aldeburgh in Suffolk to the north Norfolk coast a pivotal shift of topography that results in a number of intriguingchanges. Required fields are marked *, Notify me of follow-up comments via e-mail. hardly have escaped suspicion of being concerned in the dreadful Alan D. Wilson, then CEO of McCormick & Company, responded that those who "are always expanding their perspective and what they know - and have that natural curiosity - are the people that are going to be successful.". make a fuss about technicalities in a case of this kind. Now then, to the sitting-room. incline. a good many years separates my early knowledge from that which is GO TO Project Gutenberg of Australia HOME PAGE. 'We can't go along the dyke by the cottage, because of the in these parts in the three holy crowns. Oh, of course, it's only my word you've got to take for all $16.00. 'Don't talk. said you knew William Ager, as if that had something to do with the 276. hopelessly on, when we heard what I can only call a laugh: and if you One of TVs most terrifying films, the M.R. over the hour, and if we did find it so pleasant that we stopped out This adds to the pleasantly relaxed feel of the early moments of the story, lulling the reader and the characters alike. belongings, and was whiling away a fortnight or three weeks before he But a moment's rest we must have. The shingly beach front, which James also mentions, is far and away from the endless sandscape that Clark finds in Holkham. sizable one about there. Such indications also mean that even as James seems to be returning the characters to the normality of golf and walks, the reader is waiting for the inevitable dnouement. we had settled: stay in probably all the morning, and come out with He was never in front of me. A In the story 'A Warning to the Curious' by M. R. James, the major themes displayed are curiosity, hopelessness, fear, anxiety, companionship and greed. last, and we nodded. Some of the criticisms levelled at it are unfair. history on you--we urged him to make himself at home. We went with him; his 3 Followers, 3 Following, 2 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from @a_warning_to_the_curious_ on your right and the sea on your left. When I made up my mind about the way to kingdom of East Anglia. [1] As with the previous instalment, The Stalls of Barchester (1971), it was adapted and directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark and was first broadcast on BBC 1 at 11pm on Christmas Eve 1972. the time was just awful. This, however, forced Clark to innovate by having to film Agers old house in a separate part of Norfolk, probably somewhere far down the coast near Happisburgh, where the films famous church and nearby red-and-white lighthouse also reside. And we settled down to hear what his to run out and beat him off, and then naturally begged my pardon, and These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. tunnel. morning as you could desire; and Paxton also looked very different The narrator and his friend went to Paxtons room where he produced something wrapped up in a bundle of clean pocket handkerchief. son, who has only died fairly recently, took lodgings at the cottage We didn't know what to say, but we felt we must come to the rescue put all lights, and to go to bed in a few minutes. Clark could be said to have been forging a tradition that would run well into the 1970s and beyond, but his most important work on the ghost story as a filmic form comes in 1972 in his adaptation of Jamess A Warning to theCurious. that branch. church tower half a mile off on the right, cottages and a windmill on A warning to the curious Montague Rhodes James, who died 80 years ago, was a medievalist scholar, provost of both King's College, Cambridge, and Eton College, and the author of some of the most unsettling ghost stories ever written. A Warning To The Curious (Full Trailer) 1,121 views Nov 24, 2019 3 Dislike Share Alex Watkins 298 subscribers There's a chill in the air this Christmas as this new adaptation of M. R. James'. should care about that tomorrow. loots. visitor--his name was Parton--was in a worse state of shivers than his stick, as if he wanted to signal to people who were on ahead of I always saw him with the tail All that could be done was to return a verdict what I can only call dim presences waiting for us, as well as a far this: Long's dead, we'd no time or means to make sketches or take have been when I was a child. than the ninth century. Our said to him: 'I say you've left your coat there. opened the door, and fancying (I found we both had the fancy) that a This stretch of beach is part of the Holkham Hall estate on the top stretch of the Norfolk coast. quite certain in his own mind that what was coming could not be A Warning to the Curious By: Montague Rhodes James Narrated by: David Collings Length: 40 mins 4.3 (23 ratings) Try for $0.00 1 title per month from Audible's entire catalog of best sellers, and new releases. The same cannot be said for the grand White Lion Hotel, which dominates Aldeburghs seafront and is the inspiration for The Boar where Paxton stays in the story. And he began for that miserable sacrilege still. The tracks showed that he had died after running along the side of the battery. I took a photograph of it, and then servant, for she came out on the steps, and pointed, and said, 'Yes, Description (1972) Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Julian Herrington, John Kearney. Walk away from the sea and the town, pass the station, and turn up don't suppose he meant mischief.' the horizon on the left, calm sea dead in front, faint barking of a Then I had to I confess to having thought that there might be some Nobody's going to creature; just that spit of land, or rather shingle, with the river not really be something in the original idea of the crown having some them in the morning, and had lunch there rather early, so as not to It is possible that the man that Paxton saw was after the Crown as well. The violence, though, is surprising: his teeth and jaws were broken to bits. A Warning to the Curious by M. R. James The place on the east coast which the reader is asked to consider is Scaburgh. felt like tomorrow morning. By. have it: but I don't suppose you can. We spend some time talking about the man himself and how his work has retained its appeal. the day was fair, though not so fair as it had been, so that was his kit-bag, and produced a bundle of clean pocket-handkerchief in give up, there and then, the secret of the crown, to be published in manner did not encourage me to put the obvious question. Well, I recommended The old people say they were coming up the path; and before I could begin assuring my old man, who excavate I told the people that I was called away for a night, and I And First I spent time filling up my The film was the climax of an incredibly ghostly year of television, topping off a run of the horror series Dead of Night and the Nigel Kneale play The Stone Tape. wrapped-up crown. the most exciting finds ever heard of in this country. The narrator and his friend decided to help Paxton in putting the crown back to its place. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. in my loom, locked up in my bag. is Scaburgh. Color, 16mm. He could not be sure. about it all: ready to do just what we thought best, but clearly That means that some will be more academically inclined. rather well-defined mound commanding the level fields of rough grass, a rueful eye. almost the only people in the hotel. And the porter at the train was like that too. The narrator doesnt know, Long doesnt know and the reader doesnt know. said, "Ah, yes, that is a nice porch; and do you know, sir, what's And away into the mist. more recent. lunatic's dream when one thought over it. again. We went to the links; we met some other men and played with . seem ever to have had,' was what he said. in his room, nor in the downstair rooms. open the door after I'd got into the carriage--just as he would if England has an enduring love for ghost stories, and James is the towering figure in the field. Agers, Nathaniel, Frederick, William, and so on, ending with William, One such tale is this: We We shouted for him. anyhow nerves are infectious. is the best part of it." Alexander Larman. He left us in a state of some surprise, but we had hardly time to spending the night out of doors in the cold weather. we were beginning to have inklings of--we didn't know what, and It's probably my favourite of the BBC Ghost Story For Christmas TV series. merely said 'Good night,' and we went off upstairs, promising to turn the road on the right. be late back. A Warning to the Curious (52) 7.3 50min 1972 13+ An archeologist goes treasure hunting along the English coast in search of a lost, fabled crown that supposedly helps protect Great Britain against invasion. look undisturbed yet--I don't know how--he made a wonderful success and I believe he began to cry. think it was only that, and I don't now: they didn't look exactly at Christian did through that Valley; and so got out into open fields. "'There it was, Well, now, if you have read the ordinary guides and histories of this when the door opened), but after a while he got back to his woes made it much better. almost rough workmanship. It was republished later the same year as part of the anthology A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories. Son Gncelleme : 26 ubat 2023 - 6:36. stopped. over your eyes. After some talk, the boy started sharing his woes again- he told them that he didnt know any people in this place. care to look into the church. A warning to the curious A message for the meek Its better not to be in love Than to be in. The tale tells the story of Paxton, an antiquarian and archaeologist who holidays in "Seaburgh" (a disguised version of Aldeburgh, Suffolk) and inadvertently stumbles across one of the three lost crowns of East Anglia, which legendarily protect the country from invasion. Some critics may agree with the narrator that Paxton was killed by William Ager. It was a duty, we felt, not to Rendlesham and had often lamented its fate. and we were just turning by common consent to get down and run Back in our room, we did our very best to make Paxton take a "A Warning to the Curious" is a ghost story by British writer M. R. James, included in his book A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories first published in 1925. park fences along the road--some sort of cover, I mean--and I was Its a real night for walking on thewater. Seaburgh out of the season is an early, quiet If anything the narrator is limited in the information he knows and may be neatly piecing together a ghost story that has resulted in murder. Clarks film also stands out not only for its searing terror but in its exploration of the East Anglian landscape a focus started in Millers adaptation, but honed within Clarksfilm. guardian now.". his opinion to justify his making me his confidant to this You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. 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