![]() ![]() James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton and Cambridge. 'I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own.'Ĭonsidered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M. Up-to-date bibliography and chronology. ![]() ![]() An Appendix reprints the prefaces and introductions to James's individual story collections together with three short articles by James about the ghost story, which present the fullest first-hand account of his approach to the genre.The most accurate and comprehensive annotations to James's stories elucidate his antiquarian, classical, and literary references as well as providing interesting publishing history details.Includes a lively introduction that explores James's conservative, donnish background and the character traits that contributed to the extraordinary power of his closely focused tales, whose terrifying narratives are discussed.James's 1931 Collected Ghost Stories, plus three uncollected tales. The only one-volume edition to include all the published stories included in M. ![]()
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