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23%OFFM. R. James - Collected Ghost Stories: (OWC Hardback) - 9780198797364 - V9780198797364
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Collected Ghost Stories: (OWC Hardback)

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Description for Collected Ghost Stories: (OWC Hardback) Hardback. M. R. James's classic ghost stories are some of the finest in English, creating menace and terror in lonely country houses and remote inns. This is the only one-volume edition to include all James's published stories, an appendix of James's writings on the ghost story, and a critical introduction and notes. Editor(s): Jones, Darryl. Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FKC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 148 x 43. Weight in Grams: 632.
'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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
Condition
New
Weight
631g
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198797364
SKU
V9780198797364
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About M. R. James
Darryl Jones's other publications include Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film (London: Arnold; New York: OUP, 2002), Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson (OUP, 2014) and, forthcoming for OUP, Arthur Conan Doyle's Gothic Tales.

Reviews for Collected Ghost Stories: (OWC Hardback)
This is simply a delight to behold, never mind delve into! ... this new volume doesn't just feature James' works there is also an invaluable insight into his life by editor Darryl Jones
On: Yorkshire Magazine
A gorgeous volume.
Allen Stroud, Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation
Pleasant chills guaranteed.
John Connolly, Buzzfeed
... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Collected Ghost Stories: (OWC Hardback)


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