Curious Warnings: The Great Ghost Stories of M.R. James
This leatherbound hardback collection contains all thirty-five of M.R. James’s highly acclaimed ghost stories, including the classics: Oh Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad and Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook. As well as a foreword by Clark Ashton Smith and an extended Afterword by Stephen Jones the book is gloriously illustrated throughout by award-winning artist Les Edwards.
Like Gollancz’s Black Books (Necronomicon and Conan), this is a wonderful book that should be part of every reader’s personal library.
M. R. James
Montague Rhodes James, OM, MA, (1862–1936), who used the publication name M. R. James, was a noted British mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918) and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature. One of James' most important achievements was to redefine the ghost story for the new century by dispensing with many of the formal gothic trappings of his predecessors, and replacing them with more realistic contemporary settings.