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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James (1862 - 1936)Author: LibriVox
Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of Kings College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions.Ghost Stories of an Antiquary was written as two collections, presented here as two volumes in a single work. There is a short authors preface before the first story in each volume. (Summary by Peter Yearsley) Language: en Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Preface to Vol. 1 and Canon Alberic
Episode 1
Wednesday, 31 December, 1969
