Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

by M R James

Overview

The collection consists of a total of Eight stories, each exploring the theme of the supernatural and the macabre. Included in this volume are eight of James's most classic ghost stories, including "Canon Alberic's Scrap-book", "Lost Hearts", "The Mezzotint", "The Ash-tree", "Number 13", "Count Magnus", "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" and "The Treasure of Abbott Thomas".

Each story is crafted with an intelligent and subtle approach to horror. James's scholarly protagonists encounter uncanny and often malevolent entities linked to artifacts or locations steeped in history. The book is celebrated for its suspenseful narrative and for replacing the gothic settings typical of the genre with more everyday, contemporary environments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783732695195
Publisher:	Outlook Verlag
Publication date:	05/23/2018
Pages:	106
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

"Montague Rhodes James OM FBA (1 August 1862 - 12 June 1936) was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905-1918), and of Eton College (1918-1936).M. R. James is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some consider among the best in the genre. One of James's most important achievements was to redefine the ghost story for the new century by dispensing with many of the formal gothic trappings of his predecessors and replacing them with more realistic contemporary settings. Because his protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests, he is known as the originator of the ""antiquarian ghost story""."