Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

By James, Montague Rhodes

Book Id: WPLBN0002952828
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File Size: 291.29 MB
Reproduction Date: 2006

Title:	Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Author:	James, Montague Rhodes
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Horror/Ghost stories
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary; by M.R. James
Historic Publication Date:	1904
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Rhodes James, B. M. (1904). Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a medieval 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. “Ghost Stories of an Antiquary” was written as two collections, presented here as two volumes in a single work. There is a short author’s preface before the first story in each volume. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Horror/Ghost stories