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Uncanny Haunts: The English Ghost Story - M.R. JAMES
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last updated Oct 19, 2015 04:17PM
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Montague Rhodes James brings the classic British understatement to the field of horror stories and makes them terrifying beyond imagination. His writing is without any frills; there is very little by the way of atmosphere-building; and the stories themselves seem to be an odd form of reportage. By going against convention, M. R. James creates a nightmare world which is more frightening than that of any of his more traditional contemporaries. He is helped in this by his encyclopaedic knowledge of
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Ugh. M.R. James is the very definition of overrated.
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