Collected Ghost Stories
Author: M.R. James
I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own…’ Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M. R. James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton and Cambridge. His classic supernatural tales draw on the terrors of the everyday, in which documents….Read More
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