M. R. James, the bookish and precocious son of a curate, was born in Kent in 1862. He studied at Cambridge and remained there for most of his life, becoming director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Provost of King's College and later...

M. R. James's classic ghost stories are some of the finest in English, creating menace and terror in lonely country houses and remote inns. This is the only one-volume edition to include all James's published stories, an appendix of...

Der Autor M.R. James perfektionierte eine Methode des Geschichtenerzählens, die seither als Jamesianisch bekannt geworden ist. Die klassische James'sche Erzählung enthält in der Regel folgende Elemente: einen charaktervollen Schauplatz...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access...

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...