From The Ash Tree: Everyone who has traveled over Eastern England
knows the smaller country-houses with which it is studded -- the
rather dank little buildings, usually in the Italian style,
surrounded with parks of some eighty to a hundred acres...I have to
tell you of a curious series of events which happened in such a
house as I have tried to describe. It is Castringham Hall in
Suffolk. I think a good deal has been done to the building since
the period of my story, but the essential features I have sketched
are still there -- Italian portico, square block of white house,
older inside than out, park with fringe of woods, and mere. The one
feature that marked out the house from a score of others is gone.
As you looked at it from the park, you saw on the right a great old
ash tree growing within half a dozen yards of the wall, and almost
or quite touching the building with its branches. I suppose it had
stood there ever since Castringham ceased to be a fortified place,
and since the moat was filled in and the Elizabethan dwelling-house
built. At any rate, it had well-nigh attained its full dimensions
in the year 1690. number of witch-trials. Also includes the classic
M.R. James tales, Canon Alberic's Scrapbook, Lost Hearts, The
Mezzotint, Number 13, Count Magnus, 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to
You, My Lad', and The Treasure of Abbot Thomas.
General
Imprint: |
Wildside Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2004 |
First published: |
2004 |
Authors: |
M. R James
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - With printed dust jacket / With dust jacket
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Pages: |
168 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8095-9612-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Horror & ghost stories
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LSN: |
0-8095-9612-1 |
Barcode: |
9780809596126 |
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