Status
Available
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Publication
Folio Society (1973), Slipcased, 208 pages.
Description
The Ghost Stories of M.R. James collects the tales that best illustrate the author's quiet mastery of the ghost story form. Running through each of these stories is a slowly escalating sense of unease and dread, which ultimately shifts into the wildly uncanny. James' characters exist in a world of ancient objects whose atrocious histories begin to repeat when they are disturbed, and the blinkered repression common to James' narratives only amplifies the shock of the spectral appearance.
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Physical description
208 p.
Local notes
A collection of ghost stories, selected and with an introduction by Nigel Kneale. Text reprinted from the 1931 edition.
• The Mezzotint
• The Ash-Tree
• Number 13
• A School Story
• Count Magnus
• Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad
• The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
• Casting the Runes
• Martin's Close
• The Residence at Whitminster
• Rats
• An Episode of Cathedral History
• A View from a Hill
• A Warning to the Curious
• Wailing Well
James used to tell his thrilling tales to his students in a very stylish manner, the meetings taking place in the old panelled rooms of the University of Cambridge, on Sunday evenings, in the winter terms.
Delightfully creepy etchings by Charles Keeping.
• The Mezzotint
• The Ash-Tree
• Number 13
• A School Story
• Count Magnus
• Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad
• The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
• Casting the Runes
• Martin's Close
• The Residence at Whitminster
• Rats
• An Episode of Cathedral History
• A View from a Hill
• A Warning to the Curious
• Wailing Well
James used to tell his thrilling tales to his students in a very stylish manner, the meetings taking place in the old panelled rooms of the University of Cambridge, on Sunday evenings, in the winter terms.
Delightfully creepy etchings by Charles Keeping.