Ghost Stories, M.R. James
Ghost Stories, M.R. James
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Ghost Stories

Author: M.R. James, Hume Nisbet, Ambrose Bierce, Vincent O'Sullivan

Narrator: Bart Wolffe, Emma Hignett, David Moore, Emma Topping

Unabridged: 1 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2014

Categories: Fiction, Anthologies


Synopsis

A spine tingling selection of classic short stories to keep you awake at night including stories from the superlative M R James and the king of thrillers Hume Nisbet

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gary on October 29, 2017

Set from around the 1880s to 1early 20th century, these ghost stories are more subtle in the horror and more polished in the scene set, and the detective work involved in solving the mystery. Many of them were written to be told as Christmas Eve enterntainments read to gatherings of friends. The horro......more

Goodreads review by dead letter office on April 10, 2008

if i had a creepy cool name like montague rhodes james i'd probably write ghost stories too.......more

Goodreads review by Sotiria on December 26, 2018

It has taken me forever to finish this collection of short horror/paranormal stories, partially because of the writing. There have been instances that I did not quite understand what the writer was describing and the abundance of latin phrases and terms in 19th century english did not help . The sto......more

Goodreads review by Nick on September 24, 2018

Telling a good horror story is a bit like telling a good joke. It depends on the audience sharing certain assumptions, and it doesn't carry well across time. Which is a roundabout way of admitting heresy: I was not particularly frightened by the ghost stories of the grandfather of horror, M. R. Jame......more

Goodreads review by Anna on February 15, 2024

These stories are full of a certain promise and they're loaded with atmosphere, but in the end the adherence to realism, in making each story feel so much as if it could happen to the reader, entrenched this collection in a kind of bourgeois banality. Sometimes realism is a kind of cleverness, and i......more