Collected Ghost Stories
(OWC Hardback)
$41.45
- Hardcover
512 pages
- Release Date
26 April 2017
Summary
‘I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own…’
Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M. R. James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton and Cambridge. His classic supernatural tales draw on the terrors of the everyday, in which documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and night-time settings where imagination runs riot. Lon…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198797364 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0198797362 |
| Author: | M.R. James |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press UK |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 26 April 2017 |
| Weight: | 594g |
| Dimensions: | 44mm x 148mm x 222mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection |
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Critics Review
This is simply a delight to behold, never mind delve into! … this new volume doesn’t just feature James’ works there is also an invaluable insight into his life by editor Darryl Jones * On: Yorkshire Magazine * A gorgeous volume. * Allen Stroud, Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation * Pleasant chills guaranteed. * John Connolly, Buzzfeed *
M.R. James
Darryl Jones’s other publications include Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film (London: Arnold; New York: OUP, 2002), Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson (OUP, 2014) and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Gothic Tales (OUP, forthcoming).
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