The Ghost Stories of M.R. James - Hardcover
by M. R. James
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Availability:In StockContributor:M. R. James, Roger Luckhurst (Editor)Series:British Library Hardback ClassicsPublish date:2018-07-01Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:British LibraryISBN-13:9780712352505ISBN-10:712352503UPC:9780712352505Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Ghost, Classics, Short Stories (single author)Size:8.30 x 5.80 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCYNDJV83T
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:British LibraryISBN-13:9780712352505ISBN-10:712352503UPC:9780712352505Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Ghost, Classics, Short Stories (single author)Size:8.30 x 5.80 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCYNDJV83T
M.R. James (1862-1936) was an English medievalist scholar best remembered as the author of many of the finest ghost stories in the English language. Roger Luckhurst is a professor of modern literature whose books include Late Victorian Gothic Tales and Zombies: A Cultural History, as well as books on The Shining and Alien for the BFI Film Classics series. He has also edited several of the Oxford...
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