... for instance , which the boys at private schools tell each other , they would all turn out to be highlycompressed versions of stories out of books . ' Nowadays the Strand and Pearson's , and so on , would be extensively drawn upon .
These stories have lost none of their power to unsettle and disturb.
Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James is the title of M. R. James' omnibus collection of ghost stories, published in 1931, bringing together all but four of his ghost stories (which had yet to be published).
Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, James's stories draw on the terrors of the everyday. Documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and night-time settings where imagination runs riot.
This edition presents all of James's published ghost stories, including the unforgettable 'Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad' and 'Casting the Runes', and an appendix of James's writings on the ghost story.
... the whole tale may be given—that he grounded himself on such passages as that of the satyr which Jerome tells us ... a huff with some such word as that these high and dry parsons had no eyes but for a prayer-book or a pint of wine.
Collected Ghost Stories
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 fascinating introduction and notes by Darryl Jones.
The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James is the title of M. R. James' omnibus collection of ghost stories, published in 1931, bringing together all but four of his ghost stories (which had yet to be published).Montague Rhodes James (1862 ...
Other works include Old Testament Legends (1913), Abbeys (1925), and Collected Ghost Stories (1931).
Collected Ghost Stories
This edition presents all of James's published ghost stories, including the unforgettable 'Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad' and 'Casting the Runes', and an appendix of James's writings on the ghost story.