The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral

There are many great English ghost stories, but they appear flimsy and emotionally spectral compared to the works of M.R. James. This selection gives the reader a flavour of his strange gifts. Often, the ghost is barely glimpsed and yet somehow sticks with the reader for years, making ordinary rooms or gardens or churches uncanny and threatening. Is that the kitchen cat? And what is it that terrible thing stalking about in the dolls'' house?>

Product details

• Authors: M R James, M. R. James
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9780241746745
• ISBN: 978-0-241-74674-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Archive
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; England, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Gothic, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, FICTION / Horror, FICTION / Gothic, Classic horror and ghost stories, Novella (Short Novel), Classic fiction: general and literary