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A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories - Six Classic Ghost Stories - cover

A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories - Six Classic Ghost Stories

M.R. James

Publisher: Diamond Book Publishing

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Summary

M.R. James (1862–1936) was a medievalist 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.
Available since: 12/11/2021.

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