Collected ghost stories
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I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own ... ' Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M.R. James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton and Cambridge. His classic supernatural tales draw on the terrors of the everyday, in which documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and night-time settings where imagination runs riot. Lonely country houses,remote inns, ancient churches or the manuscript collections of great libraries provide settings for unbearable menace, from creatures seeking retribution and harm. These stories have lost none of their power to unsettle and disturb. This edition presentsall of James's published ghost stories, including the unforgettable 'Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad' and 'Casting the Runes', and an appendix of James's writings on the ghost story. Darryl Jones's introduction and notes provide a fascinating insight into James's background and his mastery of the genre he made his own.
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James, M. R., & Jones, D. (2017). Collected ghost stories. Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)James, M. R. 1862-1936 and Darryl Jones. 2017. Collected Ghost Stories. Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)James, M. R. 1862-1936 and Darryl Jones, Collected Ghost Stories. Oxford University Press, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)James, M. R. and Darryl Jones. Collected Ghost Stories. Oxford University Press, 2017.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Collected ghost stories / |c M.R. James ; edited with an introduction and notes by Darryl Jones. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Oxford : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2017. | |
| 300 | |a xxxvi, 468 pages ; |c 23 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a First published 2011 ; Reissued 2017. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-468). | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Canon Alberic's scrap-book -- 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 -- Castingthe runes -- The stalls of Barchester Cathedral -- Martin's close -- Mr. Humphreys and his inheritance -- The residence at Whitminister -- The diary of Mr. Poynter -- An episode of cathedral history -- The story of a disappearance and an appearance -- Twodoctors -- The haunted dolls' house -- The uncommon prayer-book -- A neighbour's landmark -- A view from a hill -- A warning to the curious -- An evening's entertainment -- There was a man dwelt by a churchyard -- Rats -- After dark in the playing fields-- Wailing well -- The experiment -- The malice of inanimate objects -- A vignette -- Appendix: M.R. James on ghost stories. | |
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