Fancy a real New Year's Eve spine-tingler? Look no further than The Haunting of Alice Bowles
4/5
Original Theatre Online's new ghost story is compact, brilliantly designed and lingers horribly in the mind afterwards
29 December 2020 • 1:36pm
Tamzin Outhwaite in The Haunting of Alice Bowles
Subsequent to the publication of his collected ghost stories in 1931, MR James wrote The Experiment, subtitled “A New Year’s Eve Ghost Story” and published on December 31 in The Morning Post. It begins with the news of the death of a wealthy Norfolk squire, apparently felled by a sickness sweeping the land in the dying days of the unspecified year.