Collected Ghost Stories - A Collection of 22 M R James Stories (Hardcover)

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 MrsLee

A fun read, the type of ghost stories I like (not horror or gore). This was like sitting around a campfire and hearing creepy stories told. The author lets the reader's imagination take over to ponder out the results of the events in the stories. Sometimes it feels half-told, but the effect is th...

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...

from Finxy

I often take Montague on holiday with me. He doesn't take up much room and he doesn't eat all the Baby Bells. I'm talking about Montague Rhodes James - my favourite writer of ghost stories. This time Montague is telling me the stories that didn't get printed in his four haunting anthologies. I pr...