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📖 Read on Archive.org (external link, opens in new tab)- Author
- Montague Rhodes James
- Publisher
- Edward Arnold
- Released
- 1986
- Pages
- 200
- Series
- Vintage classics
- Readers
- 4.0★ (1)
A warning to the curious and other stories
1925 · Book · Montague Rhodes James
English Horror storiesEnglish Ghost storiesFiction, short stories (single author)Fiction, ghostGhost stories
M. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a recognisable world to one that is indefinably strange, and then unforgettably terrifying. Sheets, pictures, carvings, a dolls house, a lonely beach, a branch tapping on a window - ordinary things take on more than a tinge of dread in the hands of the original master of suspense. by Montague Rhodes James