Four Ghost Stories - “’Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’”; “An Episode of Cathedral History”; “Casting the Runes”; and “The Diary of Mr. Poynter”

A collection of four stories of the supernatural by early twentieth-century medievalist and antiquarian M. R. James, exemplifying how James redefined the ghost story and how his connection to academia, antiquities, and medievalism inspired and informed his fiction.

About the author

Montague Rhodes James authored four collections of ghost stories: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919), and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925). He was a provost of King’s College, Cambridge, and Eton College, as well as a respected scholar of medievalism.

Summary

A collection of four stories of the supernatural by early twentieth-century medievalist and antiquarian M. R. James, exemplifying how James redefined the ghost story and how his connection to academia, antiquities, and medievalism inspired and informed his fiction.

Product details

• Authors: M R James, M. R. James, Montague Rhodes James
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2017
• EAN: 9780271078557
• ISBN: 978-0-271-07855-7
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, FICTION / Ghost, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, FICTION / Horror, Horror & ghost stories, Horror and supernatural fiction