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A PLEASING TERROR...


Can terror be pleasing? Can it give you a thrill? Can it enthrall you? We met one man who's hoping it can...

Robert Lloyd Parry was born in Southport in Merseyside but now lives in Great Eversden after moving to Cambridge five years ago. He's currently working as a freelance writer and actor doing MR James performances across the country, bringing a little gentle terror to the lives of the public.

Last year, he performed on the backs, gliding serenely along as darkness fell. As a team of punts were chauffeured gently through the water and the colleges slipped by silently in the background, Robert Lloyd Parry assumed the tone and the terror of one of the city's most quintessential ghost tellers.

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