JAMES MONTAGUE-RHODES (M.R. JAMES)

ΙΣΤΟΡΙΕΣ ΦΑΝΤΑΣΜΑΤΩΝ ΕΝΟΣ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΔΙΦΗ
Αριστοτεχνικές αφηγήσεις που εξιστορούν με βλοσυρή εικονοπλασία αλλά και «επιστημονικό» τρόπο τις εμπειρίες εκείνων που τυχαία ανασκαλεύουν το υπερφυσικό για να βρεθούν αντιμέτωποι με το απόκοσμο μεγαλείο του αρχέγονου τρόμου: Απεχθή πλάσματα τυλιγμένα σε σάβανα, νεκροί που γύρισαν από τον άλλο κόσμο με σκοπό μια φοβερή εκδίκηση, ανεξήγητες δαιμονικές παρουσίες που χλευάζουν τους ζωντανούς είναι μερικές μόνο από τις απεικονίσεις των πιο σκοτεινών φόβων των ηρώων του Μόνταγκιου Ρ. Τζέημς. Κλασικές ιστορίες τρόμου προορισμένες για ανάγνωση υ...
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ΤΟ ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΩΜΕΝΟ ΚΟΥΚΛΟΣΠΙΤΟ
Τρεις χαρακτηριστικές αφηγήσεις από έναν πρωτοπόρο συγγραφέα υπερφυσικών ιστοριών του 20ού αιώνα. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)...
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(P/B) Complete Ghost Stories
The art of telling a ghost story is a refined one, and Montague Rhodes James was a master of the genre. This edition features an afterword by author and playwright David Stuart Davies. M.R. James draws the reader into narratives which, seeming innocuous, become darker and darker in gentle turns - until confronting the reader with some of the most unforgettably frightening images in British literature. Complete Ghost Stories contains every timeless masterpiece from each of his four collections: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Gh...
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(H/B) THE GHOST STORIES OF M. R. JAMES
The Ghost Stories of M. R. James collects the tales that best illustrate his quiet mastery of the ghost story form. Running through each of these stories is a slowly escalating sense of unease and dread, which ultimately shifts into the wildly uncanny. James' characters exist in a world of ancient objects whose atrocious histories begin to repeat when they are disturbed, and the blinkered repression common to James' narratives only amplifies the shock of the spectral appearance. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) M.R. JAMES: COLLECTED GHOST STORIES
"There are some authors one wishes one had never read in order to have the joy of reading them for the first time. For me, M.R. James is one of these". Ruth Rendell M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement, convincing background and chilling terror. As well as the preface, there is a fascinating tail-piece by M.R. James, 'Stories I Have Tried To Write', which accompanies these thirty tal...
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(P/B) GHOSTS
A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an open window. The coffin of a woman hanged as a witch is found to be empty. A bed that hasn't been slept in is crumpled and distressed come the morning. A skeletal figure creeps closer and closer to the house where an unsuspecting family lie sleeping. In these chilling tales of the supernatural, M. R. James proves he truly is the master of the ghost story. Selected from the book Ghost Stories by M.R. James. (From ...
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(P/B) GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY (VOLUME 1)
Curl up by the fire and enter the sinister, supernatural world of Montague Rhodes James, the master of the English ghost story. Chillingly atmospheric, quietly terrifying, M.R. James's stories explore the darkness just beyond the flicker of the candle or the creaking door. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Vol. 1 comprises graphic adaptations of four of James's most compelling and unsettling stories, plunging readers into a world of pervasive, creeping disquiet - a world populated by vengeful phantoms, disturbing visions and spectral works of...
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(P/B) GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY (VOLUME 2)
Curl up by the fire and enter the sinister, supernatural world of Montague Rhodes James, the master of the English ghost story. An influence on writers from H.P. Lovecraft to Stephen King, James's tales of understated horror continue to transfix readers 80 years after his death. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Vol. 2 comprises graphic adaptations of four spine-chilling stories by M.R. James: Number 13, Count Magnus, Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad and The Treasure of Abbot Thomas. Filled with intrigue, suspense and intellectual ad...
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(H/B) COMPLETE GHOST STORIES
In another infinitesimal flash he had taken it in. Pale, dusky skin, covering nothing but bones and tendons of appalling strength; coarse black hairs, longer than ever grew on a human hand; nails rising from the ends of the fingers and curving sharply down and forward, grey horny and wrinkled. He flew out of his chair with deadly inconceivable terror at his heart. The art of telling a ghost story is a refined one and Montague Rhodes James was a master of it. With gentle cunning, he draws the reader into a narrative that at first seems inno...
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(P/B) THE HAUNTED DOLLS' HOUSE (GOTHIC CLASSICS)

OH, WHISTLE, AND I'LL COME TO YOU, MY LAD ( PICADOR SHOTS /SERIE