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Overview
The Ghost Stories of M.R. James collects the tales that best illustrate the author's quiet mastery of the ghost story form. Running through each of these stories is a slowly escalating sense of unease and dread, which ultimately shifts into the wildly uncanny. James' characters exist in a world of ancient objects whose atrocious histories begin to repeat when they are disturbed, and the blinkered repression common to James' narratives only amplifies the shock of the spectral appearance.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780712352505
- ISBN-10: 0712352503
- Publisher: British Library
- Publish Date: July 2018
- Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.05 pounds
- Page Count: 208
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