Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, M.R. James
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, M.R. James
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Author: M.R. James

Narrator: David Timson, and Stephen Critchlow

Unabridged: 4 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 09/27/2010

Categories: Fiction, Ghost


Synopsis

The powerful sense of evil – darkness, creepy hairy presences, cloaks, hoods, talons and tentacles – pervades these classic ghost stories by M.R. James. A Cambridge scholar himself, James explored what happens when academics dabble in things they don’t understand and unleash forces of which they know nothing. The titles in Ghost Stories of an Antiquary range from witchcraft to the occult, and tap into our primal fear of things that go bump in the night. They are recognised as the best of their genre.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Federico on August 23, 2024

Spooky! A collection of short stories by renowned M.R. James, considered, along with Poe and Lovecraft, one of the founding fathers of modern horror. His introductions tend to be kinda tedious, and he is not exactly easy to read, but he's a true master of eeriness. Go for the Best, consider the Go......more

Goodreads review by Bill on April 27, 2018

This is M. R. James first book of ghost stories, containing eight of his best. I believe six of these eight are among the twenty best tales of ghostly terror ever written--and the other two tales are very good too. If you like traditional ghost stories that unnerve the reader subtly by suggestion an......more

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean on February 14, 2025

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary is the first collection of stories by M.R. James, published in 1904, although some had been previously published in magazines. The next collection from 1922 is often nowadays combined with this volume. Montague Rhodes James was a noted medieval scholar and provost of Ki......more