Ghost Stories

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

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

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

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

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