Ghost stories
By: M. R. James ; selected and introduced by Ruth Rendell
Series: Vintage classics
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780099560562
Subjects: English Ghost stories
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.
Notes: Originally published as: A warning to the curious. 1987.
Table of contents: title: Canon Alberic's scrap-book; title: The tractate middoth; title: The mezzotint; title: The treasure of Barchester Cathedral; title: The ash-tree; title: A warning to the curious; title: Casting the runes; title: Number 13; title: The uncommon prayer-book; title: Count Magnus; title: 'Oh whistle, and I'll come to you my lad'; title: Mr Humphreys and his interitance.