![]() He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre. Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), was an English medieval scholar. ![]() James published a total of 4 collections of his ghost stories Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911), A Thin Ghost And Others(1919) and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925). Also available as E-Book: ePUB, 46,000 words, average reading time 3 hours, 50 min. Audiobook read by Peter Yearsley, running time 5 hours. James first collection of ghost stories, and was published in 1904. Stories included in this volume are: "Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book", "Lost Hearts", "The Mezzotint", "The Ash-tree", "Number 13", "Count Magnus","'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad''", "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas". The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. James wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. ![]() Ghost Stories of an Antiquary is a collection of ghost stories by English author M. ![]()
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