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The Ghost Stories of M. R. James (British Library Classics) (British Library Hardback Classics) (edition 2018)

by M. R. James (Author), Roger Luckhurst (Editor)

Series: Ghost Stories of M.R. James (Selection)

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The Ghost Stories of M.R. James collects the tales that best illustrate the author's quiet mastery of the ghost story form. Running through each of these stories is a slowly escalating sense of unease and dread, which ultimately shifts into the wildly uncanny. James' characters exist in a world of ancient objects whose atrocious histories begin to repeat when they are disturbed, and the blinkered repression common to James' narratives only amplifies the shock of the spectral appearance.… (more)
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Title:The Ghost Stories of M. R. James (British Library Classics) (British Library Hardback Classics)
Authors:M. R. James (Author)
Other authors:Roger Luckhurst (Editor)
Info:British Library Publishing (2018), Edition: 1, 288 pages
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This work contains a selection of stories. Please do not combine it with the Collected Ghost Stories, which is a much larger omnibus edition.

Cluster-flub warning for the incurious: This entry contains a (probably unsortable) mixture of differing selections, all called simply Ghost Stories of M.R. James.
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The Ghost Stories of M.R. James collects the tales that best illustrate the author's quiet mastery of the ghost story form. Running through each of these stories is a slowly escalating sense of unease and dread, which ultimately shifts into the wildly uncanny. James' characters exist in a world of ancient objects whose atrocious histories begin to repeat when they are disturbed, and the blinkered repression common to James' narratives only amplifies the shock of the spectral appearance.

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