Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
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| Author | M. R. James |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Horror short stories |
| Publisher | Edward Arnold |
| Released | 1904 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| ISBN | NA |
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary was written as two collections, sometimes presented as two volumes in a single work. There is a short author's preface before the first story in each volume.
Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King's College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions.
[edit] Contents
- "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'"
- "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas"
[edit] References
- A Guide to Supernatural Fiction. Retrieved on March 29, 2007.
- Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent, 240.
[edit] External links
- Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, available at Project Gutenberg.
- Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, available at Project Gutenberg. (Part 2)
- LibriVox public domain audio-recording: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James
