Pre-Owned Collected Ghost Stories (Hardcover) by M. R. James, Darryl Jones

from Nandakishore_Varma

Montague Rhodes James brings the classic British understatement to the field of horror stories and makes them terrifying beyond imagination. His writing is without any frills; there is very little by the way of atmosphere-building; and the stories themselves seem to be an odd form of reportage. B...

from JudyCroome

Written in a more innocent and graceful era, MR James's ghost stories are subtle, with very polite and, at times, utterly chilling ghosts. I enjoyed most of them, with some of the stories giving me delicious goosebumps (The Ash Tree, Number 13, Oh Whistle & I'll come to thee, my Lad, The Uncommon...

from xicanti

Henry James once said that the most effective ghost stories are connected to everyday life at a thousand different points. M.R. James took this to heart; the most effective stories herein are those that take some normal, everyday occurance and find the terror lurking beneath the surface. The stor...

from Mikal9000

Quite possibly the finest pure ghost stories ever written in the English language. James explored a common theme through these tales: the comfortable world of Edwardian gentleman-scholars being violently breached by horrific supernatural events, usually rooted in the grim and bloody past of Brita...

from bnielsen

Indeholder "Introduction", "Preface", "Canon Alberic's Scrapbook", "Lost Hearts", "The Mezzotint", "The Ash Tree", "Number 13", "Count Magnus", "'Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad'", "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas", "A School Story", "The Rose Garden", "The Tractate Middoth", "Casting the Run...