Montague Rhodes James

Collects ghost stories and tales of the supernatural, featuring such works as "Count Magnus," "Number 13," and "Casting the Runes."

The Complete Ghost Stories of M.R. James

Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories

Eight stories of the supernatural are accompanied by the original illustrations, published in the 1904 edition

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Michael Cox

This selection of twenty-one short stories by M.R. James--a first-class writer of supernatural fiction--represents his best work, including "Count Magnus," "The Rose Garden," "The Uncommon Prayer-book," "Rats," "The Malice of Inanimate Objects," and "A Vignette," as well as the title story. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories

The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

A second chilling collection of landmark ghost stories and tales of the supernatural includes all the works from the author's final two volumes of fiction, A Thin Ghost and Others and A Warning to the Curious. Original. 10,000 first printing.

The haunted doll's house and other ghost stories

Charles Dickens

W. W. Jacobs

William Hope Hodgson

Mark Twain

Lewis Carroll

Edgar Allan Poe

Rudyard Kipling

Ambrose Bierce (duplicate)

13 Classic Tales That Will Gives You the Chills

Ghosts and Ghouls

Derek Jacobi

Five Supernatural Tales Read by Derek Jacobi

Ghost Stories : Volume One

A Collection of Tales Read by Derek Jacobi

Ghost Stories : Volume Two

The Complete Supernatural Writings

A Pleasing Terror

M R James (1862 - 1936) was a writer and British medieval scholar. His well-known classic ghost stories have a Victorian Christmas theme. Although James is best known for his ghost stories, he produced many excellent scholarly works. He is also credited with cataloging libraries at Oxford and Cambridge. It is possible that the author is the central character in this ghost story written for children, but thrilling enough for adult readers. The 5 jars contain magic ointments that give the narrator special powers. Evil creatures try and stop him from using these powers. The creatures are able to assume normal and friendly appearances. As the narrator uses one jar per night he is able to interact more with animals. The cat's thoughts are quite fun to read. The introduction suggests that this book was not as popular as James's other ghost stories because it was too scary for children in that time. Today's kids will have no problem with this.

The Five Jars

A Warning to the Curious

Algernon Blackwood

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Arthur Machen

Robert W. Chambers

Osie Turner

Tod Robbins

“The Green Book,” a small, unassuming diary of a young girl; an unheard of book of the Talmud known as the “Tractate Middoth”; “The King in Yellow,” a play that drives people to insanity; two mysterious grey stone plaques from the sands of Chaldea known as the “Tablets of The Gods”; “The Confessions of Constantine,” which drives its readers into a homicidal rage—these accursed books are the subject of this collection of olden tales. Table of Contents: The Tractate Middoth by M.R. James The White People by Arthur Machen The Devil in Manuscript by Nathaniel Hawthorne The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers The Man Who Found Out (A Nightmare) by Algernon Blackwood P.’s Correspondence by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Innmost Light by Arthur Machen The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne For Art’s Sake by Tod Robbins Appendix: In Search of the Real Necronomicon by Osie Turner

The Devil in Manuscript And Other Tales of Forbidden Books

Hayalet öyküleri

«El erudito Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), preboste del Eton College, arqueólogo de renombre y reconocida autoridad en manuscritos medievales e historia de las catedrales, siguiendo su vieja afición a contar relatos de fantasmas durante las Navidades, se ha convertido poco a poco en un cultivador de primera fila de la literatura espectral, y ha llegado a servir de modelo a una larga serie de discípulos». Así presenta otro genio del terror, H.P. Lovecraft, al indiscutible maestro del relato de fantasmas victoriano M.R. James. Para James, el relato de fantasmas era todo un arte y debía ajustarse a tres normas esenciales: la historia debe tener un marco moderno, para acercar la experiencia al lector, los fenómenos espectrales deben ser malévolos más que beneficiosos, pues se busca provocar el miedo, y debe evitarse escrupulosamente la jerga técnica del «ocultismo» con objeto de no ahogar la emoción directa que suscita la historia. Más historias de fantasmas de un anticuario apareció en 1911. «De los siete relatos que contiene --comenta James-- los seis primeros son producción navideña; el primero de ellos, “Una historia escolar”, lo escribí especialmente para la escuela de coro del King’s College. “Los sitiales de la catedral de Barchester” se publicó en la Contemporany Review. “El señor Humpreys y su herencia” lo escribí para completar el volumen».

Más historias de fantasmas de un anticuario

The Penguin Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James

"Twenty-one tales that, in Chabon's words, 'venture to the limits of the human capacity for terror and revulsion... armed only with an umbrella and a very dry wit.' The stories here represent the best of James's work. They are set in the leisurely, late-Victorian, middle-class world of country houses, seaside inns, out-of-the-way railway stations, and cathedral closes, where gentlemen of independent means and antiquarian tastes suddenly find themselves confronted by terrifying agents of supernatural malice. But what these tales are really about, writes Chabon, 'is ultimately the breathtaking fragility of life, of 'reality,' of all the structures that we have erected to defend ourselves from our constant nagging suspicion that underlying everything is chaos, brutal and unreasoning.'"--Amazon.com.

Cura e traduzione di Gianni Pilo e Sebastiano FuscoEdizioni integraliPossiamo chiuderli in sepolcri di marmo, seppellirli o abbandonarli alle bestie feroci, bruciarli e spargerne al vento le ceneri: a volte i morti ritornano sulla terra per perseguitarci, ammonirci, tormentarci. Continuano, come pallide ombre, a frequentare la nostra memoria e la nostra fantasia. Orrori memorabili, agghiaccianti apparizioni, spiriti o fantasmi affollano le storie soprannaturali di M.R. James. In questo volume è compresa tutta la produzione fantastica dell’autore inglese, da lui stesso ordinata in corpus: trentuno racconti diventati degli autentici classici del genere.«Mentre continuava a fissarlo, quel volto si ritrasse, scomparendo quindi nell’oscurità del cespuglio. Prima di cadere a terra priva di sensi, la donna era riuscita a raggiungere la casa e a chiudersi la porta alle spalle.»Montague Rhodes James(1862-1936), rettore per molti anni del King’s College di Cambridge, è uno dei più famosi scrittori inglesi di narrativa fantastica. Si narra che usasse scrivere ogni Natale una storia di fantasmi che raccontava per l’occasione agli amici.

Tutti i racconti di fantasmi

A Thin Ghost and Others is a horror short story collection by British writer M. R. James, published in 1919. It was his third short collection.

A Thin Ghost and Others

A brilliant linguist and mediaevilist and the author of several volumes of distinguished ghost stories.

Montague Rhodes James

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