Books : Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
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by: M. R. James
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780192837738
ISBN: 0192837737
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: June 03, 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Sales Rank: 107495
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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Product Description:
This selection of twenty-one short stories by M.R. James--a first-class writer of supernatural fiction--represents his best work, including 'Count Magnus,' 'The Rose Garden,' 'The Uncommon Prayer-book,' 'Rats,' 'The Malice of Inanimate Objects,' and 'A Vignette,' as well as the title story.
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Rating: - Some of the very best of MR James
I simply had to have this book. I have started on a creative writing career hoping to specialise in supernatural fiction. So who better to read than the acknowedged doyen of the genre? MR James was an absolute master of the craft. Many years ago the BBC dramatised one of his short stories every Christmas Eve and continued the practice for several years. Even as a mature adult these plays used to scare me witless! Michael Hordern's wonderful depiction of paralysis in sheer terror at the end ... Read More
Rating: - The Mood of the Macabre
M.R. James is the quintessential, literary ghost story writer. His stories begin with such dark innocence, the reader wanders along, enjoying the prose, while the atmosphere thickens with the macabre. He is very Victorian in his approach, his paragraphs are skillyfully crafted. The only trouble the novice reader will encounter is adapting to his scholarly attention to detail. His prose is magnificent but heavy. The thrill is in the patient reading of his stories. Think of reading M.R. James in terms ... Read More
Rating: - Horror, Lite
More than at any other time since the era of the gladiators, entertainment in America today seems obsessed with murder, mayhem and gore. The Chainsaw Disembowelment Scene has been used in so many movies that it's almost a cliché, and I'm so jaded with seeing cadavers that I refuse to turn-on my TV.
How different are these stories by M. R. James. There are no monsters such as in H. P. Lovecraft, and the spectres which do appear never get to perform any injury - it's always a close call. ... Read More
Rating: - Write a Review, and I'll Come to You, My Lad.
O whistle, an' I'll come to you, my lad;
O whistle, an' I'll come to you, my lad;
Tho' father and mither should baith gae mad,
O whistle, an' I'll come to you, my lad.
(Burns.)
Over the last Twenty years I've purchased many books and got rid of many (After reading them then donating them to charity shops), but this is ... Read More
Rating: - Spooky as all get up
I bought this book in Paris. It was the cheapest most interesting book in English, so I grabbed it for the flight. It's one of the best book buys I've ever had.
This stuff is genuinely spooky. There are images here
that will stick with you for a long time, and this guy puts in a lot of interesting historical details that make
the stories seem all the more plausible. Can't
recommend this book enough.
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