Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

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Sinisterly appealing jacket artwork graces this scarce first edition in jacket; classic horror stuff, with a clergyman possessed by the devil. Some corner wear to boards as well as wear to head and foot of spine, but the binding remains solid. The second printing of the most famous compilation of ghost stories of all time, “generally taken to mark the beginning of the modern era of supernatural fiction. R. James, Provost of Eton, one of the most formidable scholars that England has ever produced, who has drawn upon an unmatched knowledge of the hidden byways of the past to form a series of inimitable stories. Front hinge is starting on the exterior, but the interior gutters for both the front and back covers remain secure.

Most recently her solo comics scripting has appeared as part of Dynamite Entertainment's Gail Simone masterminded crossover series Swords of Sorrow (2015, with Francesco Manna). s subtly crafted adaptations breathe fresh life into these classic stories about restless phantoms and ill-advised academic exploration. His discovery of a manuscript fragment led to excavations in the ruins of the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, West Suffolk, in 1902, in which the graves of several twelfth-century abbots were rediscovered, having been lost since the Dissolution. Only if you are willing to allow James to convince you for a few seconds that something utterly impossible could gain a momentary indisputable reality, will you perceive his skill and enjoy the shiver of horror that the upsetting of all our preconceptions can bring.Ghost Stories of an Antiquary” was written as two collections, presented here as two volumes in a single work. If you like staying up into the dark of the night reading short ghost stories you've found the book written just for you. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Renowned for their wit, erudition and suspense, these stories are each masterfully constructed and represent a high achievement in the ghost genre.

Since 2013 Leah has been the Project Manager of the innovative, free to use, digital comics publishing and reading platform Electricomics. Number 13' – What happens when you book a room in an inn that used to belong to a man accused of having been an alchemist and magician several generations ago? An Original Leather is being used for binding this book with Golden Leaf Printing and designing on Spine, front and Back of the book with edge gilding.His narrators are academic, but acquired knowledge proves to be no protection against the inexplicable or the unknown. He has also directed for Naxos AudioBooks four Shakespeare plays, including King Richard III (with Kenneth Branagh), which won Best Drama Award from the SWPA in 2001.

His stories are deliberately low-key in tone, sometimes prosaic, their relaxed scholarly style a distraction from the underlying dark mood of sombre expectation. James doesn’t expand on his creatures, they appear and disappear with scarcely a word of explanation, but they linger menacingly in the reader’s imagination long after the story ends.They take place in the quiet corners of churches, and between the dusty shelves of esteemed college libraries.

The plots unfold at a casual pace, filled out with tangential references of an academic nature deceiving the reader into a sense of false security, until he pounces, revealing the story’s awful secret: a ghost, or spectre, or creature of the night. I am a big fan of ghost stories, and enjoy nothing more than choosing a scary book to read over the Halloween period. Both David Timson and Stephen Critchlow are superb vocal actors, with very pleasing voices, the voices of men you could sit and chat with over a pint of beer or a glass of port. Curl up by the fire and enter the sinister, supernatural world of Montague Rhodes James, the master of the English ghost story. I was fortunate enough to go to a Christmas lecture last year given by Marina Warner, who knew M R James during her childhood.They have written established characters such as Doctor Who (The Whispering Gallery, 2008 with Ben Templesmith) and Sherlock Holmes (The Trial of Sherlock Holmes, 2009 with Aaron Campbell, and The Liverpool Demon, 2012 with Matt Triano), as well as creating their own including Brit-Cit Psi Division, Judge Lillian Storm (Storm Warning, 2015 with Tom Foster). Titles and decoration on both the spine and cover remain bright, but cloth shows moderate discoloration and small rubbed areas. James’ ghost stories do not follow the same style as ones that preceeded them and that led to him being known as the founder of the antiquarian ghost story.