Ghost Stories

by M. R. James

Ruth Rendell (Introduction)

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SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY RUTH RENDELL

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 1784874655
  • ISBN13 9781784874650
  • Publish Date 5 July 2018 (first published 1 October 1974)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Vintage Publishing
  • Imprint Vintage Classics
  • Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
  • Pages 288
  • Language English