The Ghost Stories of M.R. James
by James, M. R. Selected by Michael Cox
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The Ghost Stories of M.R. James, James, M. R. Selected by Michael Cox. Published by Oxford. Oxford University Press, 1986. 4to - over 9¾" - 12"., 223pp. introduction and notes; biographical sketch; illustrations by Rosalind Caldecott. Grey cloth boards with gilt titles, crimson endpapers. Volume is in fine, unread condition and housed in a fine, unclipped jacket, protected in mylar jacket.
A collection of fifteen of stories about ghosts, ancient cathedrals, lonely mansions, and spectral visitors. M.R. James (1862-1936) was an English medievalist scholar best remembered as the author of many of the finest ghost stories in the English language
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