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M. R. James
ISBN: 9780099560562
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Vintage
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The author wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a genre. He harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a recognisable world to one that is indefinably strange, and then unforgettably terrifying. This title collects these stories.
This title is selected and introduced by Ruth Rendell. 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.
| ISBN | 0099560569 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9780099560562
(What's this?) | | Pages | 288 | | Publisher | Vintage | | Weight (grammes) | 207 | | Imprint | Vintage Classics | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 06 Oct 2011 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Writer of introduction | Ruth Rendell | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY | 823.912 | | Academic level | General |
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""M. R. James is quite simply the finest writer of ghost stories ever. They're always set in an academic context, about university chaps who find out very nasty things while they're researching. They uncork the wrong bottle, unearth the wrong papers, dig up the wrong place. . . . James was provost of Eton and a fellow of Kings College, and the stories have this wonderful candlelit, academic atmosphere, surrounded by incredible nastiness. Tweedy, but unpleasant." --Christopher Frayling, author, " Spaghetti Westerns  Be the first to write a customer review
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