The Haunted Dolls' House and Other Ghost Stories
Edited with an introduction and notes by S. T. Joshi.
Stories by a visionary master of supernatural fiction
The second volume of the only annotated edition of M. R. James’s complete writings currently available, this book brings together tales from James’s final two volumes, A Thin Ghost and Others and A Warning to the Curious. In these stories, James continues his transformation of the ghost story from its nineteenth-century heritage.
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.