Ghost stories

Name: Ghost stories
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Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780099560562

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269 pages2011Vintage BooksISBN 9780099560562

English Horror stories English Ghost stories Fiction, short stories (single author)Fiction, ghost Ghost stories

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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.

Publication Details

Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2011
Pages: 269
ISBN: 9780099560562
Language: en

About Unknown Author

Montague Rhodes James (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–18), and of Eton College (1918–36). He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–15). Though James's work as a medievalist and scholar is still highly regarded, he is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some regard as among the best in the genre. James redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. However, James's protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story". **Source**: [M. R. James](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._R._James) on Wikipedia.