The Ghost Stories of M.R. James

by M.R. James

Book Overview

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 exist in a world of ancient objects whose atrocious histories begin to repeat when they are disturbed, and the blinkered repression common to James' narratives only amplifies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0712352503
• ISBN13: 9780712352505
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: British Library
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"