A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories
first publication date: 1925
genre: horror literature
original title: A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories
original language: English
follows: A Thin Ghost and Others
followed by: The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James
A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories is the title of M. R. James' fourth and final collection of ghost stories, published in 1925. Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was a medievalist scholar; Provost of King's College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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