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Collected Ghost Stories
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Paperback Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural English
By (author) M. R. James , Introduction by David Stuart Davies


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 preface, there is a fascinating tail-piece by M.R. James, Stories I Have Tried To Write, which accompanies these thirty tales. Among them are Casting the Runes, Oh, Whistle and Ill come to you, My Lad, The Tractate Middoth, The Ash Tree and Canon Alberics Scrapbook.


There are some authors one wishes one had never read in order to have the joy of reading them for the first time. For me, M.R. James is one of these. Ruth Rendell


Product details

Format Paperback | 368 pages
Dimensions 129 x 198 x 19mm | 230g
Publication date 05 Jul 2007
Publisher Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publication City/Country Herts, United Kingdom
Language English
ISBN13 9781840225518
Bestsellers rank 9,649