Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was a medievalist scholar; Provost of King's College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions.
warning, curious, other, ghost, stories, title, james, fourth, final, collection, ghost, stories, published, 1925, first, editionauthorm, jamescountryunited, kingdomlanguageenglishgenrehorror, short, storiespublisheredward, arnoldpublication, date1925media, ty. A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories is the title of M R James fourth and final collection of ghost stories published in 1925 A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost StoriesFirst editionAuthorM R JamesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglishGenreHorror short storiesPublisherEdward ArnoldPublication date1925Media typePrint hardback Preceded byA Thin Ghost and Others Followed byThe Collected Ghost Stories of M R James Montague Rhodes James 1862 1936 was a medievalist scholar Provost of King s College Cambridge He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales His stories often use rural settings with a quiet scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces The details of horror are almost never explicit the stories relying on a gentle bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions Contents of the original edition edit The Haunted Dolls House The Uncommon Prayer Book A Neighbour s Landmark A View from a Hill A Warning to the Curious An Evening s Entertainment References edit A Guide to Supernatural Fiction Archived from the original on 19 February 2007 Retrieved 2007 03 29 Tuck Donald H 1974 The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Chicago Advent p 240 Sources edit M R James free web books online Archived from the original on 30 September 2009 Retrieved 2009 09 11 External links edit nbsp The full text of A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories at Wikisource nbsp A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories public domain audiobook at LibriVox nbsp This article about a collection of horror short stories published in the 1920s is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories amp oldid 1195386391, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
