M.R. James' third collection of superb ghost stories was published just after the first world war. The first three stories are as chilling as ever. What can beat the visceral chill of thinking you are safe in bed when your dangling hand touches something that is other in the dark.

«World's Greatest Horror Stories», by Chase Cooper, W. F. Harvey, E. F. Benson, Eleanor Scott, Harriet Prescott Spofford, M. R. James. This digital edition brings together the text and its chapter structure for continuous reading. Contents include: World's Greatest Horror Stories, Narrated by Chase Cooper ; August Heat, by W. F. Harvey ; Berenice, Edgar Allan Poe ; Casting the Runes, M. R James ; Caterpillars, by E. F. Benson.

This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites.

M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement, convincing background and chilling terror.As well as the preface, there is a fascinating tail-piece by M.R. James, ‘Stories I Have Tried To Write’, which accompanies these thirty tales. Among them are ‘Casting the Runes’, ‘Oh, Whistle and I’ll come to you, My Lad’, ‘The Tractate Middoth’, ...

H.P. Lovecraft introduces this fine collection of six of M.R. James’s classic ghost stories. Included are:The Haunted Doll’s HouseThe Uncommon Prayer-BookA Neighbour’s LandmarkA View from a HillA Warning to the CuriousAn Evening’s Entertainment

Can you put a price on happiness, beauty and love?From Olivier Award-winning playwright James Graham (Punch, Dear England), The Standard of Living tells the astonishing story of rebel economist and member of the Bloomsbury Group, John Maynard Keynes.Husband to ballerina Lydia Lopokova. Lover to Duncan Grant. Friend to Virginia Woolf. Keynes moves between the corridors of power in Whitehall and the intoxicating freedom of ...

A Masterclass in Classic Ghost StorytellingGhost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James is a superb collection of eerie, atmospheric tales filled with old manuscripts, ancient objects, quiet places, and supernatural dangers that slowly reveal themselves.James is especially effective at creating fear through suggestion rather than excess, allowing tension to build gradually until the stories become genuinely unsettling. The combination of scholarshi...

Both series of the ghost stories a Cambridge provost wrote to read aloud to friends at Christmas: the scrapbook that should not have been bought, the whistle blown on a lonely beach, the ash tree outside the window. James was a medievalist by trade and put the horror in the margins of manuscripts and cathedral records, where he worked. Fifty-eight plates by painters including Munch and Goya turn on the same haunted architecture the tales do: cathedrals, winter streets, and the shadowed pla...

Both series of the ghost stories — fifteen in all — a Cambridge provost wrote to read aloud to friends at Christmas: the scrapbook that should not have been bought, the whistle blown on a lonely beach, the ash tree outside the window. James was a medievalist by trade and put the horror in the margins of manuscripts and cathedral records, where he worked. Ninety-seven plates of cathedral interiors and lonely streets by Redon, Munch and others give the antiquarian's haunted margins their pro...

The Publix Press edition of A Warning to the Curious by M. R. James:-Includes the full, unaltered text.-Is newly formatted, typeset, and designed to ensure readability.-Is a fully functional electronic book that includes an interactive table of contents, automatically saves your reading place, and more.-Includes access to additional resources, such as audio versions of the book, illustrated versions of the book, and more.A Warning to the Curious concern...

The complete collection of the beloved Grantchester Mysteries series--the inspiration for the PBS Masterpiece TV Show starring James Norton.Now on NetflixAfter fighting in World War II and hearing the call to the priesthood, Sidney Chambers begins his career as a full-time priest and part-time detective in the English countryside in 1953. Over the course of the two decades and six books that follow, he finds himself investigating all life's...

The first of the Grantchester Mysteries, and inspiration for the PBS/Masterpiece television series, finds Vicar Sidney Chambers beginning his career, as both a spiritual leader and a detective.Now on NetflixIt is 1953, the coronation year of Queen Elizabeth II . Sidney Chambers, vicar of Grantchester and honorary canon of Ely Cathedral, is a thirty-two-year-old bachelor. Tall, with dark brown hair, eyes the color of hazelnuts, and a reassur...