This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A museum curator with a keen eye for prints acquires a dull and overpriced mezzotint - an unremarkable engraving of a country manor by moonlight, scarcely worth the dealer's asking price. Yet each time he sets it aside and looks again, the picture has quietly, impossibly changed: a hooded figure has appeared upon the moonlit lawn, and with every viewing it creeps a little nearer the silent house. As scholars gather to watch the engraving play out its slow and dreadful pantomime, they realise they are witnessing not a work of art but the patient re-enactment of an old and terrible crime - one that will reach its appointed end whether they care to look or not.
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.
