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Collected Ghost Stories

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I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own, and moving slowly over it, and of several – I don’t know how many – legs and arms or tentacles or something clinging to my body
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With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.

M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. The stories are classics of their genre. Among them are ‘Casting the Runes’, ‘Oh, Whistle and I’ll come to you, my lad’, ‘The Tractate Middoth’, ‘The Ash Tree’ and ‘Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook’. They are all designed to instil that satisfying sense of unease in the heart of the reader.

‘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

Stories include: Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook; Lost Hearts; The Mezzotint; The Ash Tree; Number 13; Count Magnus; ‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’; The Treasure of Abbot Thomas; A School Story; The Rose Garden; The Tractate Middoth; Casting the Runes; The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral; Martin’s Close; Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance; The Residence at Whitminster; The Diary of Mr Poynter; An Episode of Cathedral History; The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance; Two Doctors; The Haunted Dolls’ House; The Uncommon Prayer-Book; A Neighbour’s Landmark; A View from a Hill; A Warning to the Curious; An Evening’s Entertainment; There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard; Rats; After Dark in the Playing Fields; Wailing Well; Stories I Have Tried to Write.

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Date Published: 2007-05-07
Number of Pages: 368
Pack Quantity: 56
ISBN: 9781840225518
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M(ontague) R(hodes) James (1862-1936), the son of a Kent curate, enjoyed a glittering academic career, and was acknowledged as a leading authority on medieval manuscripts and biblical apocrypha. By way of diversion, over a period of time he wrote thirty four of what are acknowledged to be the best ghost stories ever written. The passing of time does not lessen their popularity or their ability to chill, and our edition of ‘Collected Ghost Stories’ remains the best-selling book in the series.
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