description: M. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a recognisable world to one that is indefinably strange, and then unforgettably terrifying. Sheets, pictures, carvings, a dolls house, a lonely beach, a branch tapping on a window ordinary things take on more than a tinge of dread in the hands of the original master of suspense.
language: English
title: Ghost Stories
titlecomplete: Ghost Stories
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Gothic, Ghost Stories, Horror, Classics, Ghosts, Short Story Collection, Fantasy, Gothic Horror
ratings_count: 1316
publisher: St. Martin's Press