The Jolly Corner (Paperback)

from AliceAnna

Ironic title in that there was nothing remotely "jolly" about the story. A nothing story ... it was all psychological and boring as hell.

from alanteder

I expected too much from this edition after I saw that it was listed as "Illustrated." I had just finished reading Domenico Starnone's "Trick" in which a senior-aged illustrator is himself actually working on illustrations for "The Jolly Corner" (1908) while revisiting his own childhood home in o...

from missizicks

I read this for a Tales from the Crypt reading challenge. I was expecting a ghost story of the same ilk as The Turn of the Screw. I was sorely disappointed. The story had some interesting ideas - the fetishisation of the past, the potential for alternative worlds to exist where the opposite of ou...

from lkernagh

I read somewhere that The Jolly Corner is considered to be the second greatest ghost story written by James, after [Turn of the Screw], so I was happy to learn that my maiden voyage into James' works was with such a worthy story. I was surprised by the depth and complexity of the story's structur...