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Two nineteenth-century ghost stories. "The House in the Picture": Mr Williams has an old picture of a house. It is not a very good picture. It is not a very interesting picture. Then the picture tells Mr Williams a terrible story. "Abbot Thomas' Treasure": An archeologist finds some gold in an old church. It has been hidden for three hundred years. But the guardian of the gold retur...
Collection of stories by Montague Rhodes James, a noted medieval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge and of Eton College. He is best remembered today for his ghost stories in the classic Victorian Yuletide vein.
M R James (1862 - 1936) was a writer and British medieval scholar. His well-known classic ghost stories have a Victorian Christmas theme. Although James is best known for his ghost stories, he produced many excellent scholarly works. He is also credited with cataloging libraries at Oxford and Cambridge. It is possible that the author is the central character in this ghost story wri...
В сборник вошли рассказы Монтегю Родса Джеймса "Мистер Хамфриз и его наследство", "Дом при Уитминстерской церкви", "Предостережение любопытным".
The follow-up volume to "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" collects seven more of Montague Rhodes James's classic horror stories, including "A School Story," "The Rose Garden," "Casting the Runes," and "Martin's Close." "...gifted with an almost diabolic power of calling horror by gentle steps from the midst of prosaic daily life, is the scholarly Montague Rhodes James, Provost of Eton College, anti...
Each volume in the "Collector's Library" series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this first collected edition of M. R. James's "Complete Ghost Stories" is by the well-known crime writer and eminent Sherlockian, David Stuart Davies. This is the only complete edition in print and it contains three further st...
Жил да был один очень неприятный старик, о котором в окрестностях ходила самая дурная слава. Слишком уж странный он был — станет ли кто-нибудь в здравом уме делать себе маску из человеческого черепа? Незадолго до смерти он собственными руками сделал бинокль. И эти окуляры, как выяснилось позже, позволяли не только полюбоваться пейзажем…
Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, Charles Dickens and Others
Итак, жил человек возле кладбища… и поверьте, ничего хорошего такое соседство ему не принесло.
This title is part of an inexpensive range of classics in the "Penguin Popular Classics" series. It contains a collection of ghost stories.
Сборник признанного мастера рассказов о привидениях Монтегю Родс Джеймса.
Montague Rhodes James is considered one of the greatest writers of ghost stories of all time. His story-telling is noted for how it updated the conception of the ghost story from its formal gothic counterpart to the more realistic contemporary settings of the early 20th century. Included in this volume is a collection of James’ most famous ghost stories which include the following: "Canon Alberic'...
Все на что могут надеяться Николас Хардман и Стивен Аш, так это на то что бы получить свой собственный приход в каком-то английском графстве. Сейчас они члены совета Королевского колледжа в Кембридже, который они когда-то закончили. В то же время в небольшой деревушке Фенстантон, расположенной в нескольких милях от колледжа местные жители утопили Матушку Гибсон из-за обвинения в колдовстве. Что мо...
Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), who published under the byline M. R. James, was a noted medieval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905-1918) and of Eton College (1918-1936), best remembered today for his ghost stories in the classic Victorian Yuletide vein. He is most widely known for his ghost stories, but as a medieval scholar his output was phenomenal and rem...
Мистер Деннистоун, большой любитель древностей, втридорога приобретает старинную гравюру, которая оказывается ничем не примечательной. И все же сей достойный джентльмен не зря потратил деньги: совсем скоро он выясняет, что изображение на гравюре постепенно меняется…
Collection of stories by Montague Rhodes James, a noted medieval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge and of Eton College. He is best remembered today for his ghost stories in the classic Victorian Yuletide vein.
A macabre human drama is re-enacted in a Gothic dolls` house one night; a whistle awakens a force of unspeakable malevolence; an ancient curse is passed from person to person; a grisly crime is avenged from beyond the grave; the tomb of a Swedish count will not rest quietly.
This selection of 21 stories represents the best of James's work, and includes three stories which are not in the Collected Edition.
Part of the "Penguin Active Reading"series, this book provides a range of integrated activities designed to develop reading skills and consolidate vocabulary, and offers personalised project work. What is the crown, and why is it important for England? Who is William Agers? In this gripping mystery, the answers are all in Seaburgh.
Classic / British English A tree full of enormous spiders, a living thing with no face, a picture that comes alive, and a boy with no heart. These are some of the frightening things in these stories by M. R. James, one of the greatest horror writers of all time.