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COMPLETE GHOST STORIES
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| By: |
M. R. James, David Stuart Davies |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1905716095 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781905716098 |
| Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2007 |
| Edition: |
Main Market Ed. |
| Pages: |
592 |
| Description: |
Part of the "Collector's Library" series, this book's Afterword is by the well-known crime writer and eminent Sherlockian, David Stuart Davies. It features a brief biography of the author and a reading list. It contains the stories "The Experiment", "The Malice of Inanimate Objects" and "A Vignette", among others. |
| Synopsis: |
In another infinitesimal flash he had taken it in. Pale, dusky skin, covering nothing but bones and tendons of appalling strength; coarse black hairs, longer than ever grew on a human hand; nails rising from the ends of the fingers and curving sharply down and forward, grey horny and wrinkled. He flew out of his chair with deadly inconceivable terror at his heart.The art of telling a ghost story is a refined one and Montague Rhodes James was a master of it. With gentle cunning, he draws the reader into a narrative that at first seems innocuous but which by gentle turns becomes darker and darker until he transfixes you with his prose, creating the most unforgettable, alarming and frightening images. This volume contains all his timeless masterpieces from the four collections of his eerie tales: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919), A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925)."With an Afterword by David Stuart Davies. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Returns: |
Returnable |