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This book is ideal for readers who enjoy classic horror and supernatural fiction. Fans of atmospheric ghost stories and literary tales that explore the uncanny will find Ghosts engaging. Suitable for those appreciating concise, expertly woven narratives within the horror genre.
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Vintage Minis bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between.
A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an open window. The coffin of a woman hanged as a witch is found to be empty. A bed that hasn't been slept in is crumpled and distressed come the morning. A skeletal figure creeps closer and closer to the house where an unsuspecting family lie sleeping. In these chilling tales of the supernatural, M. R. James proves he truly is the master of the ghost story.
Selected from the book Ghost Stories by M. R. James.
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ISBN: 9781784874483
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 April 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 111.0mm
Height: 179.0mm
Weight: 91g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Montague Rhodes James was born on 1 August 1862 near Bury St Edmunds, though he spent long periods of his later life in Suffolk, which provided the setting for many of his ghost stories. He studied at Eton and Kings College, Cambridge, where he was eventually elected Fellow, and then made Provost in 1905. In 1918 he became Provost of Eton. He was a renowed medievalist and biblical scholar, and published works on palaeography, antiquarianism, bibliography and history, guides to Suffolk and Norfolk, as well as editing a collection of ghost stories by Sheridan Le Fanu. However, he remains best known for his own ghost stories, which were published in several collections including Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), A Thin Ghost and Other Stories (1919), A Warning to the Curious (1925) and a collected edition in 1931. M. R. James never married and died on 12 June 1936.
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