In this story, the Cambridge “ontography” professor Parkins takes a golfing holiday to Burnstow, where he finds a bronze object bearing the legends “FUR FLA FLE BIS” and “QUIS EST ISTE QUI UENIT” in the ruins of a Templar preceptory. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this story, titled for a Robert Burns poem, which ends after Parkins is narrowly saved from a being wrapped in bedclothes.
ANSWER: “Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad”
[10e] M.R. James's “Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad” appears in a collection titled for this genre of story narrated by an antiquary. The full title of A Christmas Carol describes it as one of these stories “of Christmas.”
ANSWER: ghost story/stories/fiction/etc. [accept Ghost Stories of an Antiquary; prompt on supernatural or horror stories, or similar less specific answers]
[10m] This author first made her name with ghost stories like “The Old Nurse’s Story,” which was commissioned for the magazine Household Words. She chose to omit salacious details from her biography of Charlotte Brontë.
ANSWER: Elizabeth Gaskell [or Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson; accept Mrs Gaskell from weird Brits]
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