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Title
Collected ghost stories
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862-1936 (contributor)
Jones, Darryl, 1967- (contributor)
Subject
Ghost stories, English (LCSH)
Genre Form
Short stories (LCGFT)
Language
English (eng)
Classification
LCC: PR6019.A565 A6 2011 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 823.912 full (Source: 22)
Supplementary Content
bibliography (bibliography)
Content
text (txt)
Summary
Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, James's stories draw on the terrors of the everyday. Documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and night-time settings where imagination runs riot.
Table Of 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
A school story
The rose garden
The tractate middoth
Casting the runes
The stalls of Barchester Cathedral
Martin's close
Mr. Humphreys and his inheritance
The residence at Whitminister
The diary of Mr. Poynter
An episode of cathedral history
The story of a disappearance and an appearance
Two doctors
The haunted dolls' house
The uncommon prayer-book
A neighbour's landmark
A view from a hill
A warning to the curious
An evening's entertainment
There was a man dwelt by a churchyard
Rats
After dark in the playing fields
Wailing well
The experiment
The malice of inanimate objects
A vignette
Appendix: M.R. James on ghost stories
Authorized Access Point
James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862-1936 Collected ghost stories
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Description Language: English
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