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Delphi Complete Works of M. R. James (Illustrated)

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M. R. James entirely redefined the ghost story for the modern reader. Abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors, he chose instead realistic contemporary settings, whilst blending his esoteric interest in antiquarian subjects to fashion his own inimitable tales of horror. For the first time in publishing history, Delphi Classics presents the complete fictional works of M. R. James, as well offering every published work that James produced for the general reader. This comprehensive eBook offers numerous illustrations, informative introductions, rare texts and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to James’ life and works

* Concise introductions to the short story collections and other texts

* ALL the story collections, with individual contents tables

* Includes rare uncollected ghost stories often missed out of collections

* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts

* Excellent formatting of the texts

* Famous works such as GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY are fully illustrated with their original artwork

* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the ghost stories

* Easily locate the short stories you want to read

* All of James’ translations of Hans Christian Andersen’s stories

* Many rare non fiction works appear here for the first time in digital publishing history

* Even includes the two rare guide books written by James – first time in digital print

* Includes James’ rare memoir – explore the author’s personal experiences

* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

CONTENTS:

The Short Story Collections

GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY

MORE GHOST STORIES

A THIN GHOST AND OTHERS

A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS AND OTHER GHOST STORIES

THE COLLECTED GHOST STORIES OF M. R. JAMES

UNCOLLECTED STORIES

The Short Stories

LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Children’s Books

THE FIVE JARS

FORTY-TWO STORIES BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

The Non-Fiction

HENRY THE SIXTH: A REPRINT OF JOHN BLACMAN’S MEMOIR

THE WANDERINGS AND HOMES OF MANUSCRIPTS HELPS FOR STUDENTS OF HISTORY

OLD TESTAMENT LEGENDS

PROLOGUE TO LE FANU’S MADAM CROWL’S GHOST AND OTHER TALES OF MYSTERY

THE APOCRYPHAL NEW TESTAMENT

INTRODUCTION TO ‘GHOSTS AND MARVELS’ (1924)

SOME REMARKS ON GHOST STORIES

GHOSTS — TREAT THEM GENTLY!

The Guidebooks

ABBEYS

SUFFOLK AND NORFOLK

The Memoir

ETON AND KING’S: RECOLLECTIONS, MOSTLY TRIVIAL, 1875-1925

Contents Of The Us Version:

Please note: due to US copyright restrictions, later stories and some non-fiction works are not included.

The Short Story Collections

GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY

MORE GHOST STORIES

A THIN GHOST AND OTHERS

A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS AND OTHER GHOST STORIES

The Short Stories

LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Children’s Novella

THE FIVE JARS

The Non-Fiction

HENRY THE SIXTH: A REPRINT OF JOHN BLACMAN’S MEMOIR

THE WANDERINGS AND HOMES OF MANUSCRIPTS HELPS FOR STUDENTS OF HISTORY

OLD TESTAMENT LEGENDS

PROLOGUE TO LE FANU’S MADAM CROWL’S GHOST AND OTHER TALES OF MYSTERY

The Guidebooks

ABBEYS

SUFFOLK AND NORFOLK

The Memoir

ETON AND KING’S: RECOLLECTIONS, MOSTLY TRIVIAL, 1875-1925



  1. The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 1 (The Dunwich Horror, The Tell-Tale Heart, Green Tea, The Monkey's Paw, The Willows, The Shadows on the Wall, and many more!)

    Robert E. Howard, Andreyev Leonid, M. R. James, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, John Metcalfe, Clark Ashton Smith, Onions Oliver, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Blackwood Algernon, Arthur Machen, William Hope Hodgson, F. Marion Crawford, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Lee Vernon, Walter De La Mare, Ambrose Bierce, Lafcadio Hearn, W. W. Jacobs, Robert W. Chambers, Franz Kafka, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Saki, Edgar Allan Poe, E. F. Benson

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  2. The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 5 (30 short stories)

    Charlotte Riddell, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Anatole France, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Elia W. Peattie, Guy de Maupassant, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Machen, Richard Le Gallienne, Myla Jo Closser, Washington Irving, F. Marion Crawford, Robert W. Chambers, Onions Oliver, Bram Stoker, Clark Ashton Smith, Mary Shelley, Lafcadio Hearn, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, E. F. Benson, M. R. James, Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle, Shiel M. P., Davis Rebecca Harding

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  3. The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 7 (30 short stories)

    George G. Toudouze, Rudyard Kipling, L. P. Hartley, Samuel Blas, Lee Vernon, Connell Richard, Saki, Lord Dunsany, John Buchan, Guy de Maupassant, Walter Scott, Edith Nesbit, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, Woollcott Alexander, Noyes Alfred, Robert Louis Stevenson, Clark Ashton Smith, Wilkie Collins, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Guy Preston, M. R. James, W. W. Jacobs, Arthur Conan Doyle, Herbert George Wells, McNeile H. C.

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  4. The Big Book of the Masters of Horror: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories

    O. Henry, Oscar Wilde, Edith Wharton, H. Russell Wakefield, Mark Twain, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Clark Ashton Smith, Walter Scott, Saki, Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent O’Sullivan, Onions Oliver, Margaret Oliphant, Edith Nesbit, John Metcalfe, Guy de Maupassant, Arthur Machen, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Lee Vernon, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Rudyard Kipling, Franz Kafka, M. R. James, Henry James, W. W. Jacobs, Washington Irving, Hunt Violet, Robert E. Howard, E. T. A. Hoffmann, William Hope Hodgson, Hichens Robert, W. F. Harvey, Nikolai Gogol, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Anatole France, Amelia B. Edwards, Lord Dunsany, Charles Dickens, Walter De La Mare, F. Marion Crawford, Aleister Crowley, Connell Richard, Wilkie Collins, E. F. Benson, Andreyev Leonid, Cynthia Asquith, Virginia Woolf, Lafcadio Hearn, Nathaniel Hawthorne, L. P. Hartley, Myla Jo Closser, Robert W. Chambers, Cather Willa, A. M. Burrage, John Buchan, Marjorie Bowen, Blackwood Algernon, Ambrose Bierce, White Edward Lucas, Arthur Conan Doyle, Herbert George Wells, Shiel M. P., Davis Rebecca Harding

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  5. The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3 (30 short stories)

    Pain Barry, Edith Nesbit, Marjorie Bowen, O. Henry, Irvin S. Cobb, E. F. Benson, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Hunt Violet, W. F. Harvey, Saki, Mark Twain, Vincent O’Sullivan, Edgar Allan Poe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, M. R. James, Lafcadio Hearn, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charles Dickens, Ambrose Bierce, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, A. M. Burrage, Blackwood Algernon, Arthur Conan Doyle

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  6. Beware The Silence : Ultimate Collection of Horror Classics, Macabre Tales & Supernatural Mysteries

    Wilhelm Hauff, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Adelbert von Chamisso, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, John Buchan, Louis Tracy, Bram Stoker, Anatole France, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Jack London, Henry James, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Jane Austen, Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas De Quincey, John Meade Falkner, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, William Archer, Daniel Defoe, John Kendrick Bangs, Cleveland Moffett, Brander Matthews, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Horace Walpole, Rudyard Kipling, Lafcadio Hearn, Hugh Walpole, Ambrose Bierce, Frederick Marryat, Ellis Parker Butler, Washington Irving, Leonid Andreyev, David Lindsay, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, Arthur Machen, Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, Fergus Hume, Edward Bellamy, Walter Hubbell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Leopold Kompert, Richard Marsh, Florence Marryat, Catherine Crowe, John William Polidori, Vincent O'Sullivan, H. G. Wells, Robert W. Chambers, W. Jacobs, M. P. Shiel, E. F. Benson, Jerome K. Jerome, M. R. James, E. T. A. A Hoffmann, Stanley G. Weinbaum, George W. M. M Reynolds, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Edith Nesbit, Sabine Baring-Gould, William Thomas Beckford, Francis Marion Crawford, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Nikolai Gogol, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Frank R. Stockton, A. T. Quiller-Couch, Ann Radcliffe, Louisa M. Alcott, Amelia B. Edwards, Leonard Kip, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Fitz-James O'Brien, Katherine Rickford, Bithia Mary Croker, Catherine L. Pirkis, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Pedro De Alarçon, H. H. Munro (Saki), Pliny the Younger, Helena Blavatsky, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, William F. Harvey, Fiona Macleod, William T. Stead, Gambier Bolton, Andrew Jackson Davis, Nizida, Walter F. Prince, Chester Bailey Fernando

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  7. Box Set - The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volumes 1 to 7 (100+ authors & 200+ stories) (Halloween Stories)

    W. F. Harvey, Edith Wharton, H. Russell Wakefield, Mark Twain, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Clark Ashton Smith, Mary Shelley, Walter Scott, Saki, Charlotte Riddell, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, John William Polidori, Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent O’Sullivan, Onions Oliver, Edith Nesbit, John Metcalfe, Guy de Maupassant, Arthur Machen, Lee Vernon, Richard Le Gallienne, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Rudyard Kipling, Franz Kafka, M. R. James, Henry James, W. W. Jacobs, Washington Irving, Robert E. Howard, E. T. A. Hoffmann, William Hope Hodgson, Hichens Robert, Margaret Oliphant, O. Henry, Lafcadio Hearn, Nathaniel Hawthorne, L. P. Hartley, Nikolai Gogol, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Anatole France, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Amelia B. Edwards, Lord Dunsany, Charles Dickens, Walter De La Mare, Aleister Crowley, F. Marion Crawford, Wilkie Collins, Robert W. Chambers, Cather Willa, A. M. Burrage, John Buchan, Marjorie Bowen, Blackwood Algernon, Ambrose Bierce, E. F. Benson, Cynthia Asquith, Andreyev Leonid, Arthur Conan Doyle, Herbert George Wells, Shiel M. P., McNeile H. C.

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  8. The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 2 (30 short stories)

    William Hope Hodgson, Perceval Landon, Aleister Crowley, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Marjorie Bowen, Arthur Machen, Clark Ashton Smith, Vincent O’Sullivan, John Metcalfe, Lee Vernon, A. M. Burrage, Margaret Oliphant, Edgar Allan Poe, Walter De La Mare, Robert W. Chambers, Blackwood Algernon, Ambrose Bierce, E. F. Benson, M. R. James, Howard Phillips Lovecraft

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  9. Short Fiction (Unabridged)

    M. R. James

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  10. Vampire Tales: The Big Collection (80+ stories in one volume: The Viy, The Fate of Madame Cabanel, The Parasite, Good Lady Ducayne, Count Magnus, For the Blood Is the Life, Dracula’s Guest, The Broken Fang, Blood Lust, Four Wooden Stakes...)

    Fred M. White, Mary E. Braddon, E. G. Swain, Ulric Daubeny, Cynthia Asquith, Hesketh V. Pritchard, Nikolai Gogol, Bram Stoker, Clark Ashton Smith, Edgar Allan Poe, Jan Neruda, Gilbert William, Sabine Baring-Gould, Alexei Tolstoy, John William Polidori, Johann Ludwig Tieck, Pu Songling, Victor Roman, Edith Wharton, Robert Louis Stevenson, Everil Worrell, Dion Fortune, Uel Key, Horacio Quiroga, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Claude Askew, Théophile Gaultier, Luigi Capuana, Louise J. Strong, Norris Frank, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Augustus Hare, F. G. Loring, Hume Nisbet, H. B. Marriott-Watson, Eric Stenbock, Marsh Richard, Anne Crawford, Cholmondeley Mary, Hawthorne Julian, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Phil Robinson, Eliza Lynn Linton, A. B. Mitford, Vincent O’Sullivan, Edith Nesbit, Guy de Maupassant, Lee Vernon, D. H. Lawrence, Robert E. Howard, F. Marion Crawford, Walter De La Mare, Blackwood Algernon, Ambrose Bierce, E. F. Benson, M. R. James, Andreyev Leonid, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Arthur Conan Doyle, Herbert George Wells

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  11. M. R. James: The Complete Supernatural Stories (30+ tales of horror and mystery: Count Magnus, Casting the Runes, Oh Whistle and I’ll Come to You My Lad, Lost Hearts...) (Halloween Stories)

    M. R. James

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  12. 50+ Masterpieces of Occult & Supernatural Fiction : At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Willows, The Monkey’s Paw, The Turn of the Screw and others

    E. F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Ulric Daubeny, Charles Dickens, Lord Dunsany, W. F. Harvey, Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. W. Jacobs, Henry James, Franz Kafka, David H. Keller, Kuttner Henry, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, M. R. James, Vincent O’Sullivan, Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Ronan, Saki, Blackwood Algernon

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