A Thin Ghost and Others : Five Tales for Anyone Who Has Ever Been Alone in an Old Building After Dark
A forged papal seal, a country house with a very unwelcome guest, a stained-glass window that shows more than it should — M.R. James returns with five more stories built on his signature trick: ordinary scholars and clergymen stumbling into something that was better left undisturbed. Nothing jumps out. Something worse happens — it simply arrives, and won't leave.
James is credited with inventing the modern ghost story's understated dread, and this collection shows the technique at its most refined: the horror is always in what he doesn't describe.
A forged papal seal, a country house with a very unwelcome guest, a stained-glass window that shows more than it should — M.R. James returns with five more stories built on his signature trick: ordinary scholars and clergymen stumbling into something that was better left undisturbed. Nothing jumps out. Something worse happens — it simply arrives, and won't leave.
James is credited with inventing the modern ghost story's understated dread, and this collection shows the technique at its most refined: the horror is always in what he doesn't describe.
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M.R. James (1862-1936) was een Brits auteur, onderwijzer van middeleeuwse geschiedenis en rector van King's College in Cambridge en Eton College nabij Windsor. Hij is vooral bekend van zijn spookverhalen, die door velen worden gerekend tot de beste in hun soort.
