Download or read book Ghost Stories of an Antiquary written by M. R. James and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight classics by great Edwardian scholar and storyteller. "Number Thirteen," "The Mezzotint," "Canon Alberic's Scrapbook," more. Renowned for their wit, erudition and suspense, these stories are each masterfully constructed and represent a high achievement in the ghost genre.
Download or read book Montague Rhodes James 1862 1936 written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1936 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Montague Rhodes James C M 1862 1936 written by Stephen Gaselee and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collected Ghost Stories written by M. R. James and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Collected Ghost Stories" by M. R. James. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Montague Rhodes James 1862 1936 written by Stephen Gaselee and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories written by M. R. James and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has an introduction by Ruth Rendell, herself a writer of Mystery and detective stories. This mystery story centers around the accidental finding of a significant historical object; one of the lost crowns of Anglia.
Download or read book The Uncommon Prayer Book Fantasy and Horror Classics written by M. R. James and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M. R. James was born in Kent, England in 1862. James came to writing fiction relatively late, not publishing his first collection of short stories - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) - until the age of 42. Modern scholars now see James as having redefined the ghost story for the 20th century and he is seen as the founder of the 'antiquarian ghost story'. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions with a brand new introductory biography of the author.
Download or read book Montague Rhodes James O M 1862 1936 A Biographical Memoir From the Proceedings of the British Academy Etc written by Sir Stephen GASELEE and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Montague Rhodes James written by Montague Rhodes James and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary is a horror short story collection by British writer M. R. James, published in 1904 (some had previously appeared in magazines). Some later editions under this title contain both the original collection and its successor, More Ghost Stories (1911), combined in one volume.
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Download or read book The Five Jars written by M. R. James and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Five Jars" is a children's fantasy novel with eight short chapters. The central character is a man who finds a metal box containing five jars while on vacation at a country cottage. The jars were full of an ointment, and after applying it, the narrator slowly gained the power to talk with animals and the ability to see, listen and speak to fairy-like people. He later finds out that some evil witches and wizards want to take the five jars away from him. Will he save them?
Download or read book Canon Alberic s Scrapbook Fantasy and Horror Classics written by M. R. James and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M. R. James was born in Kent, England in 1862. James came to writing fiction relatively late, not publishing his first collection of short stories - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) - until the age of 42. Modern scholars now see James as having redefined the ghost story for the 20th century and he is seen as the founder of the 'antiquarian ghost story'. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions with a brand new introductory biography of the author.
Download or read book Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories written by M. R. James and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-10-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only annotated edition of M. R. James’s writings currently available Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories contains the entire first two volumes of James’s ghost stories, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. These volumes are both the culmination of the nineteenth-century ghost story tradition and the inspiration for much of the best twentieth-century work in this genre. Included in this collection are such landmark tales as “Count Magnus,” set in the wilds of Sweden; “Number 13,” a distinctive tale about a haunted hotel room; “Casting the Runes,” a richly complex tale of sorcery that served as the basis for the classic horror film Curse of the Demon; and “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad,” one of the most frightening tales in literature. The appendix includes several rare texts, including “A Night in King’s College Chapel,” James’s first known ghost story. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book An Episode of Cathedral History written by Montague Rhodes James and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Excerptr proved downright fatal, but even among the younger, few escaped either a sojourn in bed for a matter of weeks, or at the least, a brooding sense of oppression, accompanied by hateful nightmares. Gradually there formulated itself a suspicion--which grew into a conviction--that the alterations in the Cathedral had something to say in the matter. The widow of a former old verger, a pensioner of the Chapter of Southminster, was visited by dreams, which she retailed to her friends, of a shape that slipped out of the little door of the south transept as the dark fell in, and flitted--taking a fresh direction every night--about the Close, disappearing for a while in house after house, and finally emerging again when the night sky was paling. She could see nothing of it, she said, but that it was a moving form: only she had an
Download or read book Oh Whistle and I ll Come to You My Lad Fantasy and Horror Classics written by M. R. James and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M. R. James was a prolific and hugely successful author, now credited with having redefined the ghost story for the 20th century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. Originally published in 1904, 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to you, My Lad' ranks amongst his best and most underrated tales. Many of the earliest ghost stories and tales of hauntings, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book More Ghost Stories written by M. R. James and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Montague Rhodes James was a medieval scholar by training, and he was interested in the oral storytelling tradition that prevailed before the printed word took hold and gained worldwide popularity. His ghost stories were written to be read aloud in a group setting, but even if you dare to read them all alone, you'll appreciate their subtlety, elegance and slow building of suspense.
Download or read book Ghost Stories of M R James written by M. R. James and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost Stories of M. R. James By Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) With four illustrations by James McBryde (?-1904), and five by Simon Vedder (1866-1937) The contents of this book were first published 1898 1936. This book is in the public domain in countries where copyright is "Life]70" or less. Montague Rhodes James was a noted British mediaeval scholar and author. He was provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905-1918) and of Eton College (1918-1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature. One of James' 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. ---------------------------- This collection includes all thirty-three of his ghost stories written for publication (posthumously published fragments are not included). The appendix presents a number of writings by James commenting on ghost stories and the supernatural. Set in the early twentieth century, these stories are elegantly written with a restrained but powerful atmosphere of terror. Vengeful ghosts, evil demons, black-hearted men dabbling in the occult - these lurk in ordinary British locales, waiting to pounce. Without ever descending to nauseating grue and gore, James can make your hackles rise. ---------------------------- The text for this ebook was obtained from The Complete Complete Ghost Stories MOBI ebook posted on MobileRead by contributor Mousewaffle. Illustrations were retrieved from archive.org A number of transcript errors have been corrected; segments of misplaced text re-located; missing italics restored; punctuation and spelling for several stories Anglicized; some translations of Latin and French phrases annotated. Story titles are cross-linked to in-line Table of Contents. . ###### EDIT: uploaded the Special Edition version with Mousewaffle's cover, and some minor format tweaks. ###### EDIT: Uploaded the New Special Edition version2 with additional illustrations and more format tweaks. Text remains unchanged. Previous downloads: 101 .
