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Complete Ghost Stories
Contributor(s): James, M. R. (Author), Davies, David Stuart (Introduction by)
ISBN: 1509827722     ISBN-13: 9781509827725
Publisher: MacMillan Collector's Library
OUR PRICE:   $13.49  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Ghost
- Fiction | Short Stories (single Author)
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 3.6" W x 6.1" (0.65 lbs) 592 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

In another infinitesimal flash he had taken it in. Pale, dusky skin, covering nothing but bones and tendons of appalling strength; coarse black hairs, longer than ever grew on a human hand; nails rising from the ends of the fingers and curving sharply down and forward, grey horny and wrinkled. He flew out of his chair with deadly inconceivable terror at his heart.

The art of telling a ghost story is a refined one and Montague Rhodes James was a master of it. With gentle cunning, he draws the reader into a narrative that at first seems innocuous but which by gentle turns becomes darker and darker until he transfixes you with his prose, creating the most unforgettable, alarming and frightening images. This volume contains all his timeless masterpieces from the four collections of his eerie tales: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919), A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925).

With an Afterword by David Stuart Davies.


Contributor Bio(s): Davies, David Stuart: - An internationally recognized expert on Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle, David Stuart Davies is the editor of the crime fiction magazine Sherlock and the author of several books on Sherlock Holmes. He also edits the Crime Writers' Association's monthly Red Herrings magazine. Forests of the Night was his first Johnny Hawke novel. He lives in West Yorkshire, England.