An edition of Collected Ghost Stories (1931)

Collected Ghost Stories

by

  • ★★★★ 4.00 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 37 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 4 Have read
Cover of: Collected Ghost Stories by Montague Rhodes James
Preview Only
Borrow Listen

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today
Notes
  • ★★★★ 4.00 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 37 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 4 Have read
Notes

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Last edited by ImportBot
February 6, 2022 | History
Edit
An edition of Collected Ghost Stories (1931)

Collected Ghost Stories

by

  • ★★★★ 4.00 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 37 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 4 Have read

Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, James's stories draw on the terrors of the everyday. Documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and night-time settings where imagination runs riot.

Publish Date
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Pages
468

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Subjects
Ghost stories, English ghost stories, Horror stories, Ghosts, Victorian, Stories, Evil, Hunting, Religious, Unsetteling, Horror, English Ghost stories, Fiction, ghost, Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, horror, Gespenstergeschichte, Kurzgeschichte, Englisch
Places
Great Britain

Showing 3 featured editions. View all 15 editions?

Edition Availability
Cover of: Collected Ghost Stories
Collected Ghost Stories
2011, Oxford University Press
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Collected Ghost Stories
Collected Ghost Stories
1994, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Hardcover in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Collected ghost stories
Collected ghost stories
1992, Wordsworth Editions
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat

Add another edition?

Book Details

Published in

Oxford, New York

Table of Contents

Canon Alberic's scrap-book
Lost hearts
The mezzotint
The ash-tree
Number 13
Count Magnus
"Oh, whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad"
The treasure of Abbot Thomas
A school story
The rose garden
The tractate middoth
Casting the runes
The stalls of Barchester Cathedral
Martin's close
Mr. Humphreys and his inheritance
The residence at Whitminister
The diary of Mr. Poynter
An episode of cathedral history
The story of a disappearance and an appearance
Two doctors
The haunted dolls' house
The uncommon prayer-book
A neighbour's landmark
A view from a hill
A warning to the curious
An evening's entertainment
There was a man dwelt by a churchyard
Rats
After dark in the playing fields
Wailing well
The experiment
The malice of inanimate objects
A vignette
Appendix: M.R. James on ghost stories.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-468).

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.912
Library of Congress
PR6019.A565 A6 2011, PR6019.A565

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxvi, 468 p. ;
Number of pages
468

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25323249M
Internet Archive
collectedghostst00jame
ISBN 10
0199568847
ISBN 13
9780199568840
LCCN
2011934716
OCLC/WorldCat
748672443

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

See All

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON
February 6, 2022 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
August 5, 2020 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
August 2, 2020 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
June 21, 2020 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
December 9, 2009 Created by WorkBot add works page