Name: Ghost Stories of An Antiquary
SKU: 56547899
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Author: M. R. James
ISBN: 9781515327967

Type

Physical Book

Author

M. R. James

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

24.6x18.9x0.5 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9781515327967

Synopsis "Ghost Stories of An Antiquary"

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Collection of Ghost Stories Ghost Stories of an Antiquary is the title of M. R. James' first collection of ghost stories, published in 1904 (some had previously appeared in magazines). Some later editions under this title contain both the original collection and its successor, More Ghost Stories (1911), combined in one volume. Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King's 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.

M. R. James

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Montague Rhodes James (rectoría de Goodnestone, Kent, 1862-Eton, 1936) fue director del colegio de Eton y decano del King’s College en la Universidad de Cambridge. A lo largo de su vida se interesó por la arqueología, la paleografía, la filología y las antigüedades. Consagrado al cuento de fantasmas solo como afición al margen de su magna obra académica, sus obras más conocidas dentro del género son Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911), A Thin Ghost (1919) y A Warning to the Curious (1925). Gran reivindicador del escritor irlandés Sheridan Le Fanu, fue a su vez fue reivindicado por H. P. Lovecraft (Siruela ha incluido uno de sus cuentos en la antología El horror según Lovecraft).

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