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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... Read Full Overview

The finest stories of a master of the spine-chiller are presented here in a lavishly illustrated new edition. M.R. James is generally regarded as the greatest writer of ghost stories England has ever produced and this volume gathers together his best work, including "The Tractate... Read Full Overview

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary is the title of M. R. James' first collection of ghost stories, published in 1904 (some had previously appeared in magazines). Some later editions under this title contain both the original collection and its successor, More Ghost Stories (1911),... Read Full Overview

A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an open window. The coffin of a woman hanged as a witch is found to be empty. A skeletal figure creeps closer and closer to the house where an unsuspecting... Read Full Overview

Malignant forces and supernatural visitors haunt these superbly spooky tales, selected and introduced by Ruth Rendell
M. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernize a genre. James harnesses... Read Full Overview