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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
- Author
- M. R. James
- Narrator
- John Stanbridge
- Publisher
- Audioliterature
- Publish Date
- 24 July 2017
- Run Time
- 8 hours 56 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- M. R. James
- Narrator
- John Stanbridge
- Duration
- 8 hours 56 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 July 2017
- ISBN
- 4250887884118
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Audioliterature
- Genre
- Classic fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1931) is the title of M. R. James' first collection of ghost stories. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. By contrast to the gothic tales of his predecessors, James's stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasize the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions.
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