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  • Published: 18 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9780143039921
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $37.99

The Haunted Doll's House and Other Ghost Stories

The Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James, Volume 2



Stories by a visionary master of supernatural fiction

Volume two of this annotated edition of M. R. James's complete writings brings together tales from his final two works, A Thin Ghost and Others and A Warning to the Curious. In these stories, James continues his fearsome transformation of the ghost story from its nineteenth-century heritage, drawing upon his deep knowledge of medieval history and biblical curiosa. This edition features a number of little-known tales that have rarely been assembled, including “The Fenstation Witch,” presented here for the first time in a corrected text, a new translation of “Twelve Medieval Ghost Stories,” and a number of James’s essays.

Edited and with an introduction and notes by S. T. Joshi.

Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

  • Published: 18 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9780143039921
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $37.99

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Annals
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About the author

M. R. James

M. R. James, the bookish and precocious son of a curate, was born in Kent in 1862. He studied at Cambridge and remained there for most of his life, becoming Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Provost of King's College and later Vice-Chancellor of the university. A brilliant scholar, he translated the New Testament apocrypha and catalogued many of the university's medieval manuscripts. His first story collection, based on stories he read aloud to friends on Christmas Eve, was published in 1904 as Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and was followed by three more. He died in 1936.

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