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[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Is this Jason Carswell any relation to Mr. Karswell, the alchemist and occultist in M. R. James' marvelous short story "Casting the Runes" (1911)?

[–]BISH 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Is this Jason Carswell any relation to Mr. Karswell, the alchemist and occultist in M. R. James' marvelous short story "Casting the Runes" (1911)?

Yes. That's Jason's great-great uncle.

The guy was great.

[–]JasonCarswellWay Of The Burning Man[S] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

LOL. That would be news to me. I'll look that up. Thanks!

Carswell is a rare enough surname but certainly not extremely rare and a few prominent examples exist.

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I highly recommend the story. There's a copy at Gutenberg.

The 1957 British movie adaptation Night of the Demon is quite good. There's a shortened US version called Curse of the Demon.

[–]JasonCarswellWay Of The Burning Man[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

The only Mr. Carswell in movies that I know of is in the 1965 Michael Caine spy craft feature, The Ipcress File. IIRC, it's pretty good except for the corny torture sequence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ipcress_File_(film)