Name: Collected Ghost Stories
Rating: 3.453125 (16 reviews)
ISBN: 9780198797364

M. R. James

Collected Ghost Stories

M.R. James

Ghost Stories

I really loved it!!! So many great scary stories!! I took 1.25 points off because some stories (very few) didn’t connect with me and the language used was difficult to understand sometimes as a non native English speaker, but I really enjoyed and recommend reading it!!

Yalin Tsikun

Sarah Sammis

Collected Ghost Stories is just that, a collection of all the ghost stories M. R. James (Montague Rhodes) published over the course of his writing career (roughly 1904-1935). When he wasn't writing, he was British mediaeval scholar and later the provost of King's College. His work in mediaeval studies comes through in his ghost stories.

This 350 page volume contains thirty-one ghost stories written in a Gothic style. The ornate language and slow pacing of the stories requires extra time when reading. Many of the stories were written to be read out loud and they still work best when read at the slower pace of spoken text.

My favorite story in the collection comes early in the book: "Number 13" which plays on the tradition of hotels not having a room #13. "Number 13" supposes the existence of such a room in a hotel that claims not to have a room. Where does this extra room come from?

Simona Andrijauskiene

I dnf’ed it after 100 pages of trying. It put me in a such a huge reading slump. 
Very boring and not scary at all even though it’s about ghosts.

Collected Ghost Stories

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