Complete Ghost Stories
Author: M.R. James
M. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernize a genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a recognizable world to one that is indefinably strange, and then unforgettably terrifying. Sheets, pictures, carvings, a doll’s house, a lonely beach, a branch tapping on a window—ordinary….Read More
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