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Bezig met laden... Collected Ghost Storiesdoor M. R. James
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Selection of 30+ ghost or just plain weird stories by a master of this form. Early gothics. The typical story has James as narrator telling of a particular character discovering a particular item and then strange happenings and appearances occur. Some stories take place in libraries, churches, estates, schools, etc. Disturbing and unsettling atmosphere. Writing is old-fashioned--Victorian or Edwardian--but keeps one's interest. A fun read, the type of ghost stories I like (not horror or gore). This was like sitting around a campfire and hearing creepy stories told. The author lets the reader's imagination take over to ponder out the results of the events in the stories. Sometimes it feels half-told, but the effect is that the mind lingers on the tale. I found it best to read one story a night before bed. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Ghost Stories of M.R. James (Omnibus 1-4) Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Penguin English Library, 2012 series (2018-06) BevatSpookverhalen door M. R. James Canon Alberic's Scrap-book [short story] door M. R. James (indirect) Lost Hearts [short fiction] door M. R. James (indirect) The Mezzotint [short story] door M. R. James (indirect) The Ash-Tree [short story] door M. R. James (indirect) Number 13 [short story] door M. R. James (indirect) Count Magnus [short story] door M. R. James (indirect) "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" [short story] door M. R. James (indirect) The Treasure Of Abbot Thomas [short fiction] door M. R. James (indirect) Casting the Runes [short fiction] door M. R. James (indirect) Martin's Close [short story] door M. R. James (indirect) A School Story door M. R. James (indirect) The Rose Garden door M. R. James (indirect) The Stalls Of Barchester Cathedral [short story] door M. R. James (indirect) Mr Humphreys And His Inheritance [short fiction] door M. R. James (indirect) The Tractate Middoth [short story] door M. R. James (indirect) The Residence at Whitminster [short story] door M. R. James (indirect) The Diary of Mr. Poynter [short story] door M. R. James (indirect) An Episode of Cathedral History door M. R. James (indirect) Two Doctors door M. R. James (indirect) A Warning to the Curious [short story] door M. R. James (indirect) An Evening's Entertainment [short fiction] door M. R. James (indirect) The Haunted Dolls' House [short story] door M. R. James (indirect) A Neighbour's Landmark [short fiction] door M. R. James (indirect) A View from a Hill [short fiction] door M. R. James (indirect) The Uncommon Prayer Book door M. R. James (indirect)
'I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own...'Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M. R. James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton and Cambridge. His classic supernatural tales draw on the terrors of the everyday, in which documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closedrooms and night-time settings where imagination runs riot. Lonely country houses, remote inns, ancient churches or the manuscript collections of great libraries provide settings for unbearable menace, from creaturesseeking retribution and harm. These stories have lost none of their power to unsettle and disturb.This edition presents all of James's published ghost stories, including the unforgettable 'Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad' and 'Casting the Runes', and an appendix of James's writings on the ghost story. Darryl Jones's introduction and notes provide a fascinating insight into James's background and his mastery of the genre he made his own. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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(There laid the screech owl)
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep?
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But in another minute they were in the sitting-room of the house, a small, high chamber with a stone floor, full of moving shadows cast by a wood-fire that flickered on a great hearth.
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I can only just manage to tell you now the bare outline of the experience. I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own, and moving slowly over it, and of several - I don't know how many - legs or arms or tentacles or something clinging to my body.
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He never saw much of what was around him, but he felt the scenes most vividly.
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How clear Betton bell sounds tonight after the rain!; but instead images came to me of dusty beams and creeping spiders and savage owls up in the tower, and forgotten graves and their ugly contents below, and of flying Time and all it had taken out of my life.
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