Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, More Ghost Stories & A Thin Ghost & Others: Pearl Necklace Books Ghost Story Classics
Book Details
Author(s)
Montague Rhodes James
Publisher
Pearl Necklace Books
ISBN / ASIN
B00IX2E7E2
ISBN-13
978B00IX2E7E3
Sales Rank
#707,641
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
• Three of Montague Rhodes James’s books from the early 1900s are bound together in this Kindle trilogy: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and More Ghost Stories and A Thin Ghost and Others.
Ghost Stories
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary is M.R. James’s first collection of ghost stories originally published in book form in 1904. This title and its successor More Ghost Stories (1911) are combined in this volume. A Thin Ghost and Others was first published in 1919.
About The Author
Montague Rhodes James (1862 –1936), was an English author, medieval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge. He is best remembered for his ghost stories, in which he abandoned many of the formal Gothic clichés and used realistic settings. James's protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests.
Many of his ghost stories were written to be read aloud as was traditional on spooky Christmas Eve. His tales are often based in rural settings, with a scholarly caught in the whirl of the supernatural.
Ghost Stories
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary is M.R. James’s first collection of ghost stories originally published in book form in 1904. This title and its successor More Ghost Stories (1911) are combined in this volume. A Thin Ghost and Others was first published in 1919.
About The Author
Montague Rhodes James (1862 –1936), was an English author, medieval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge. He is best remembered for his ghost stories, in which he abandoned many of the formal Gothic clichés and used realistic settings. James's protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests.
Many of his ghost stories were written to be read aloud as was traditional on spooky Christmas Eve. His tales are often based in rural settings, with a scholarly caught in the whirl of the supernatural.
