Complete Ghost Stories: M.R. James Main Market Edition
Author(s): M. R. James (Author), David Stuart Davies (Introduction)
Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
Publication Date: 26 Jan. 2017
Edition: Main Market
Language: English
Print length: 592 pages
ISBN-10: 1509827722
ISBN-13: 9781509827725
Book Description
The art of telling a ghost story is a refined one, and Montague Rhodes James was a master of the genre.
Complete Ghost Stories is part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics bound in real cloth with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an afterword by author and playwright David Stuart Davies.
M.R. James draws the reader into narratives which, seeming innocuous, become darker and darker in gentle turns – and then confront readers with some of the most unforgettably frightening images in British literature. Complete Ghost Stories contains every timeless masterpiece from each of his four collections: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919), and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925).
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‘Where is it? Who is it? Am I going out of my mind?’
About the Author
Montague Rhodes James was born in 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage, Kent, where his father was a curate, but the family moved soon afterwards to Great Livermere in Suffolk. James attended Eton College and later King’s College Cambridge where he won many awards and scholarships. From 1894 to 1908 he was Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and from 1905 to 1918 was Provost of King’s College. In 1913, he became Vice-Chancellor of the University for two years. In 1918 he was installed as Provost of Eton. A distinguished medievalist and scholar of international status, James published many works on biblical and historical antiquarian subjects. He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1930. His ghost story writing began almost as a divertissement from his academic work and as a form of entertainment for his colleagues. His first collection, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary was published in 1904. He never married and died in 1936.
David Stuart Davies is an author, playwright and editor and is regarded as an authority on Sherlock Holmes. His fiction includes novels featuring his wartime detective Johnny Hawke and several Sherlock Holmes novels – including
Sherlock Holmes and the Devil’s Promise. He is a committee member of the Crime Writers’ Association, editing their monthly publication, Red Herrings, and is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.
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