“A figure inexpressibly thin and pathetic, of a dusty leaden colour, enveloped in a shroud-like garment, the thin lips crooked into a faint and dreadful smile, the hands pressed tightly over the region of the heart."

English author Montague Rhodes James is widely-regarded as an excellent writer of ghost stories, many of which were written as Christmas Eve entertainments for the author's guests. Over the years, these stories, possessed of an antiquarian, scholarly feel, have been revisited and reworked for film, stage, audio and television.

Using p5js and a custom rendering engine, I have taken inspiration from some of M.R. James' classic tales, forming dark, pointillist and minimalist structures from low-resolution starting points. Some of these are taken from AI models, others are merely collections of flat vector shapes, to which detail is added using the Perlin-noise-based rendering process.

Each one is a single edition, though a composite image of all nine pieces is available in a larger, more accessible edition.