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Montague James

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost StoriesMontague Rhodes James Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories * * * * *The first six of the seven tales were Christmas productions, the very first ('A School Story') having been made up for the benefit of King's College Choi...

Ghost Stories of an AntiquaryM. R. James Ghost Stories of an Antiquary If anyone is curious about my local settings, let it be recorded that St Bertrand de Comminges and Viborg are real places: that in 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You' I had Felixstowe in mind. As for the fragments of ostensibl...

The Wanderings and Homes of ManuscriptsM. R. James The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts / Helps for Students of History, No. 17 THE WANDERINGS AND HOMES OF MANUSCRIPTS The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts is the title of this book. To have called it the survival and transmission of ancient ...

The Five JarsMontague Rhodes James The Five Jars I THE DISCOVERY MY DEAR JANE,You remember that you were puzzled when I told you I had heard something from the owls—or if not puzzled (for I know you have some experience of these things), you were at any rate anxious to know exactly how it happene...

Old Testament LegendsM. R. James Old Testament Legends / Being stories out of some of the less-known apocryphal books of the Old Testament PREFACE If you read the title-page of this book—a thing which young persons very seldom do—you will see that it (the book) contains stories taken "out of some...

A Thin Ghost and OthersM. R. James A Thin Ghost and Others PREFACE Two of these stories, the third and fourth, have appeared in print in the Cambridge Review, and I wish to thank the proprietor for permitting me to republish them here.I have had my doubts about the wisdom of publishing a third se...