
Five tales from the understated master of ghastliness. THE RESIDENCE AT WHITMINSTER THE DIARY OF MR. POYNTER AN EPISODE OF CATHEDRAL HISTORY THE STORY OF A DISAPPEARANCE AND AN APPEARANCE TWO DOCTORS "Montague Rhodes James has, it is clear, an intelligent and scientific knowledge...

From the mind of M. R. James, the scholar-writer who redefined the ghost story for the 20th century and founded the 'antiquarian ghost story' genre, comes this essential collection, A Thin Ghost and Others. This volume gathers chilling tales where the quiet worlds...

This collection of eerie ghost stories showcases M. R. James at his finest, blending scholarly settings with supernatural elements. Each tale unfolds with subtle suspense, where ordinary characters encounter malevolent forces, mysterious artifacts, and spectral entities. With...

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Dr. Ashton-Thomas Ashton, Doctor of Divinity-sat in his study, habited in a dressing-gown, and with a silk cap on his shaven head-his wig being for the time taken off and placed on its block on a side table. He was a man of some fifty-five years, strongly made, of a sanguine...


A collection of short stories by a master of the genre.We are happy to announce this classic book. Many of the books in our collection have not been published for decades and are therefore not broadly available to the readers. Our goal is to access the very large literary repository...




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A Thin Ghost and Others is a horror short story collection by British writer M. R. James, published in 1919. It was his third short collection.