![]() ![]() The 2010 edition of Sleep No More represents a very welcome addition to the books in print. He hailed me as the successor to M R James whose Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary I first read at the age of eight and at five yearly intervals ever since. ![]() "Michael Sadleir’s reception of this modest collection of stories was so extravagant that it quite went to my head. Rolt, writing in Landscape With Figures, describes the publisher's reception of the manuscript for Sleep No More: There was nothing flowery about Tom Rolt, though he indulged a different side of himself by writing some cracking short ghost stories, as in Sleep no more: Railway Canal and Other Stories of the Supernatural". "Tom Rolt's centenary in 2010 sees the re-issue of a tranche of his many books, revealing his passions, obsessions and intricate knowledge of whatever subject he was turning his had to at the time. Sleep No More" has also been published as an e-book by Ash Tree Press, August 2012 ( see below). Re-issued by The History Press in January 2010. ![]()
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