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Ghost Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780099560562)
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M. R. James
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xMalignant forces and supernatural visitors haunt these superbly spooky tales, selected and introduced by Ruth Rendell
M. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernize a genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a recognizable world to one that is indefinably strange, and then unforgettably terrifying. Sheets, pictures, carvings, a doll's house, a lonely beach, a branch tapping on a window--ordinary things take on more than a tinge of dread in the hands of the original master of suspense. James's prescription for his ghost stories was to "let the ominous thing put out its head, unobtrusively at first, and then more insistently, until it holds the stage."
Author: M. R. James
ISBN-10: 0099560569
ISBN-13: 9780099560562
Publisher: Vintage Books
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2011
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.85h x 5.23w x 0.72d
M. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernize a genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a recognizable world to one that is indefinably strange, and then unforgettably terrifying. Sheets, pictures, carvings, a doll's house, a lonely beach, a branch tapping on a window--ordinary things take on more than a tinge of dread in the hands of the original master of suspense. James's prescription for his ghost stories was to "let the ominous thing put out its head, unobtrusively at first, and then more insistently, until it holds the stage."
Author: M. R. James
ISBN-10: 0099560569
ISBN-13: 9780099560562
Publisher: Vintage Books
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2011
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.85h x 5.23w x 0.72d
About the Author
M. R. James (1862-1936) was a renowed medievalist and biblical scholar, and published works on palaeography, antiquarianism, bibliography, and history as well as editing a collection of ghost stories by Sheridan Le Fanu. He remains best known for his own ghost stories, which were published in several collections including Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, A Thin Ghost and Other Stories, and A Warning to the Curious. Ruth Rendell is an award-winning crime writer whose titles include End in Tears, Harm Done, and The Monster in the Box.
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