Curious Warnings: The Great Ghost Stories of M.R. James

Curious Warnings: The Great Ghost Stories of M.R. James
ISBN-10
0857388045
ISBN-13
9780857388049
Category
Ghost stories, English
Pages
655
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Jo Fletcher Books
Author
Montague Rhodes James

Description

An illustrated collector's edition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of the father of the modern ghost story. Montague Rhodes James - M. R. James - was an English academic and provost of King's College and Eton. He started writing ghost stories to entertain his friends . . . and now, one hundred and fifty years after his birth, he is revered as the father of the modern English ghost story. This gorgeous hardback collection contains all thirty-five of M.R. James's highly acclaimed ghost stories, including the classics: 'Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' and 'Canon Alberic's Scrapbook'. As well as a foreword by Clark Ashton Smith and an extended Afterword by Stephen Jones, the book is gloriously illustrated by award-winning artist Les Edwards, who has provided a frontispiece and a dozen full-page illustrations, as well as many small pictures throughout the text. Like Gollancz's Black Books (Necronomicon and Conan), this is a wonderful book that should be part of every reader's personal library.

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