'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. Lonely country houses, remote
inns, ancient churches or the manuscript collections of great
libraries provide settings for unbearable menace, from creatures
seeking retribution and harm. These stories have lost none of their
power to unsettle and disturb. This edition presents all of James's
published ghost stories, including the unforgettable 'Oh, Whistle
and I'll Come to You, My Lad' and 'Casting the Runes', and an
appendix of James's writings on the ghost story. Darryl Jones's
introduction and notes provide a fascinating insight into James's
background and his mastery of the genre he made his own.
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