British Library Publishing Ghost Stories of M. R. James

Collects the tales that best illustrate M.R James collects the tales that best illustrate his quiet mastery of the ghost story form. In each of these stories there is a slowly escalalting sense of unease and dread, ultimately shifting into the wildly uncanny. James' characters exist in a world of ancient objects whose strocious histories begin to repeat when they are disturbed, and the blinkered repression common to James' narratives only amplifies the shock of the spectral appearance.