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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

M.R. James

Start date: September 15, 2018

Finish date: October 14, 2018

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Jan 17, 2016 Mike (the Paladin) rated it liked it

Shelves: horror

I'd read some of these before and most are excellent. James has an imagination that can draw you in...and then take advantage of your vulnerabilities to things that may or may not go bump in the night.

You will as always find reliably creepy stories from James. I can recommend this tome (or is it tomb...mwa-wah-ha-ha) if you're looking for ghost/supernatural stories. ...more

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Jan 16, 2014 Latasha rated it it was amazing

Shelves: public-domain, re-reads, horror, ghosties-haunted-house

I love these ghost stories!!!

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Sep 19, 2018 Fiona Knight rated it really liked it

Shelves: horror, absolute-favourites, short-n-sweet, ghost-stories

There's something to be said for horror that's still creepy after a century passes, and M.R. James provides it by the bucketload in this collection. Part of my attachment must be put down to nostalgia - growing up, the only horror I could usually get my hands on was the kind that came in huge anthologies and tended to the classical (read: old!). The language is very of it's time, but it provides a subtle distance to the whole thing that amplifies it's creepiness; the scares themselves usually bu ...more

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Sep 21, 2018 Lena rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio

Lost Hearts ★★★★★
“Master's as kind a soul as ever I see! Didn't I never tell you of the little boy as he took in out of the street?”

Now that was a maliciously evil bad guy who got a heaping helping of comeuppance! Well done.

Count Magnus ★★★★☆
This is the found record of the last days of a man overly curious about a long-dead evil count.

It reminded me of people who obsess over Nazis, at some point the interest in more than benign... if you’re an Apt Pupil.

Oh, Whistle, And I’ll Come to You, M ...more

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Sep 17, 2018 Tyler Gray rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, gothic, horror, own, own-kindle, ghosts

Avg 3.5

Stuff went over my head and was a bit confusing, because it's old, but I did mostly enjoy what I got. Maybe i'll revisit this at a later date and get more out of it, who knows. ...more

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