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Collected Ghost Stories
M. R. James
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Description for Collected Ghost Stories
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 358.
'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 ... Read more
'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
354g
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199674893
SKU
V9780199674893
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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).
Reviews for Collected Ghost Stories
Arguably the definitive collection by a single writer, this edition collects together all of James' spine-tingling tales in a single volume. From Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad to The Mezzotint, these stories guarantee unbearable horrified suspense.
The New European
In his introduction to the 2013 Oxford World Classics edition of MR James's Collected Ghost ... Read more
The New European
In his introduction to the 2013 Oxford World Classics edition of MR James's Collected Ghost ... Read more