The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance

The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance is M. R. James at his most disquieting: where festive streets darken quickly, dreams twist into warnings, and something grotesque walks just beyond the edge of understanding.

Blending holiday cheer with a creeping sense of dread, this tale invites the listener to question what hides behind tradition, and what slips through the cracks of propriety.

Laced with unease and subtle horror, it is not merely a ghost story—it is a disturbance in the fabric of the ordinary.

À propos de ce livre

The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance is M. R. James at his most disquieting: where festive streets darken quickly, dreams twist into warnings, and something grotesque walks just beyond the edge of understanding.

Blending holiday cheer with a creeping sense of dread, this tale invites the listener to question what hides behind tradition, and what slips through the cracks of propriety.

Laced with unease and subtle horror, it is not merely a ghost story—it is a disturbance in the fabric of the ordinary.

Commencez ce livre dès aujourd'hui pour 0 €

  • Accédez à tous les livres de l'app pendant la période d'essai
  • Sans engagement, annulez à tout moment
Essayer gratuitement
Plus de 52 000 personnes ont noté Nextory 5 étoiles sur l'App Store et Google Play.

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 5.0

    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

  5. 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.

  6. Nouveau

    The Mezzotint :

    M. R. James

  7. Nouveau

    The Book of Shadows Vol 3

    Mary Elizabeth Penn, Sir Herbert Stephen, Edith Nesbit, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Oliphant, M. R. James, Ellen Glasgow, W. F. Harvey, Sir Hugh Walpole, E F Benson

  8. #63

    Rats

    M. R. James

  9. #60

    Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad

    M. R. James

  10. World's Greatest Horror Stories

    E. M. Delafield, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, M. R. James, F. Harvey, H.P. Lovecraft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Franz Kafka, Charles Dickens, William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Conan Doyle, Margaret Oliphant, Walter de la Mare, Achmed Abdullah, Eleanor Scott, Harriet Prescott Spofford, E F Benson, Fitz-James O’Brien, E T A Hoffmann

  11. The Book of Shadows III

    Mary Elizabeth Penn, Sir Herbert Stephen, Edith Nesbit, Vincent O'Sullivan, Oliphant, M. R. James, Ellen Glasgow, William Fryer Harvey, Sir Hugh Walpole, E F Benson

  12. The 9th Ghost Story MEGAPACK®

    M. R. James, E Nesbit, Oliver Onions, C.M. Eddy Jr., B.M. Bower, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Otis Adelbert Kline, A. T. Quiller-Couch, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Barry Pain