Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
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David Timson, Stephen Critchlow
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Narrated by:
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David Timson
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Stephen Critchlow
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M. R. James
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The powerful sense of evil – darkness, creepy hairy presences, cloaks, hoods, talons and tentacles – pervades these classic ghost stories by M.R. James. A Cambridge scholar himself, James explored what happens when academics dabble in things they don’t understand and unleash forces of which they know nothing. The titles in Ghost Stories of an Antiquary range from witchcraft to the occult, and tap into our primal fear of things that go bump in the night. They are recognised as the best of their genre.
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A masterpiece from the godfather of spooky
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Perfection.
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These stories are short but they are very characteristic, and most of the main characters can be seen to be thinly-veiled self portraits of the author, Monty (as he was affectionately known in his circle). This can be seen in the first story, “Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook”. But as the stories progress, the darker they become. “Lost Hearts”, with its inclusion of children as ghosts (classic staple); “Count Magnus” (perhaps one of my favourites), and “Number 13”, make you question everything about the world we know. But the last story, “The Treasure of Abbot Thomas”, is perhaps the most claustrophobic of all the stories. It’s climax is terrifying, and it makes the skin crawl with that “pleasing terror”, as Monty called it.
If you want a ghost story collection to read, I would definitely, ultimately, recommend this one as a start to the best ghost stories ever written. This is the first volume, there were three more to come: “More Ghost Stories”, “A Thin Ghost and Other Stories”, and “A Warning to the Curious and Other Stories”.
These are the greatest ghost stories I have ever read: up there with J. Sheridan le Fanu (who was an influence on Monty), Algernon Blackwood, and E. F. Benson.
An Extremity of Terror
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Number 13
Canon Alberics' Scrapbook
The Mezzotint
Lost Hearts
The Ash tree
Count Magnus
Whistle and I'll come to thee
Abbot Thomas's Treasure
These are some of James's best work, although his most famous story A Warning To The Curious is absent, it doesn't detract from this box of chilling dark delights!
A Box of Darkest Delights
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