M. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a recognisable world to one that is indefinably strange, and then unforgettably terrifying. Sheets, pictures, carvings, a dolls house, a lonely beach, a branch tapping on a window, ordinary things take on more than a tinge of dread in the hands of the original master of suspense.
- ISBN10 1312184884
- ISBN13 9781312184886
- Publish Date 27 May 2014
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 488
- Language English