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M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement, convincing background and chilling terror. As well as the p
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises , the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material onlin
Looking for some spooky stories to read on a camping trip, at a Halloween party, or at home with the family in front of a roaring fire? The works of medieval scholar M.R. James should fit the bill. James often said that he wrote his stories to be read alo
The only annotated edition of M. R. James's writings currently available, Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories contains the entire first two volumes of James's ghost stories, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. Th
'I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own...' Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M. R. James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the aca
'Still as the night was, the mysterious population of the distant moonlit woods was not yet lulled to rest' The aim of a good ghost story is to make the blood freeze, pleasurably, and this M. R. James achieves to perfection in these wonderful stor
THE GOTHIC CLASSIC Seven more classic ghost stories from the master of Victorian macabre, M.R. James. Many of these tales were written to be read aloud in the tradition of ghost stories at Christmas and a number have been adapted for television and film.
The art of telling a ghost story is a refined one, and Montague Rhodes James was a master of the genre. Complete Ghost Stories is part of the Macmillan Collectors Library, a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics bound in real cloth with gold foiled ed
Antiquarian Paxton travels to a small town on the coast of Norfolk and learns of a legend concerning three crowns buried on the coast thousands of years ago to protect the land against marauding Vikings. Paxton tries to find the remaining crown, unaware o
Den engelske forfatter og middelalderforsker fra Cambridge, Montague Rhodes. James (1862-1936) udgav i 1904 sin første samling af spøgelseshistorier, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. En af bogens mest kendte spøgelseshistorier, der også er en af M.R. James&
'I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own...' Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M. R. James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the aca
What if a single scrap of parchment could sentence you to death-unless you passed it to another soul first? First printed in 1911, Casting the Runes remains the quintessential story of malignant scholarship and occult revenge. This expanded modern edition
The second in a series of republished classic literature, The Ghost Stories of M. R. James collects the tales that best illustrate his quiet mastery of the ghost story form. Running through each of these stories is a slowly escalating sense of unease and