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[M. R. James, Michael Chabon] ✓ Casting the Runes: And Other Ghost Stories (Oxford World's Classics) ↠ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Casting the Runes: And Other Ghost Stories (Oxford World's Classics) "An inexplicably dreadful edition" according to A Customer. Beware! If you love James or desire to discover him, this new edition of OUP's anthology is not the way to go. A previous and superb OUP edition was edited and annotated by Michael Cox. His fascinating comments are cued by asterisks that are liberally sprinkled throughout the text. In the current version, all the annotations are gone--but the asterisks remain! One can imagi. "One of the great voices in horror" according to JR Pinto. Fir
| Title | : | Casting the Runes: And Other Ghost Stories (Oxford World's Classics) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.71 (788 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195151178 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-15 |
| Language | : | English |
Dickens's "A Christmas Carol," Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw"--most of the early short story writers wrote ghost stories as a matter of course. But what these tales are really about, writes Chabon, "is ultimately the breathtaking fragility of life, of 'reality,' of all the structures that we have erected to defend ourselves from our constant nagging suspicion that underlying everything is chaos, brutal and unreasoning." The tales in Casting the Runes are both chilling fun and, as Chabon concludes, "unmistakably works of art." Anyone who loves short fiction or who enjoys a good scare will find these stories an irresistible delight.. Indeed, as he points out, it can be argued that the ghost story was the genre. And the best writer of ghost stories, the acknowledged master, was M.R. James. In Casting the Runes, we have twenty-one tales that, in Chabon's words, "venture to the limits of the human capacity for terror and revulsionarmed only with an umbrell Download as PDF : Click Here Download as DOC : Click Here Download as RTF : Click Here
"An inexplicably dreadful edition" according to A Customer. Beware! If you love James or desire to discover him, this new edition of OUP's anthology is not the way to go. A previous and superb OUP edition was edited and annotated by Michael Cox. His fascinating comments are cued by asterisks that are liberally sprinkled throughout the text. In the current version, all the annotations are gone--but the asterisks remain! One can imagi. "One of the great voices in horror" according to JR Pinto. First, about M.R. James:He is excellent! He is one of the best, most underappreciated voices in horror. Lovecraft admired him. His stories, though old, are quite scary. Also, they are very well written. As Chabon points out in his intro, Poe and Lovecraft weren't the best literary stylists. Most people cite "Oh, Whistle" as James's best story, but I think I'll vote for "Cou. Great stories---bargain basement , shoddy Edition. AVOID Dark Mechanicus JSG Oxford University Press has committed an outrage---a violation!---and the publishers should be ashamed of themselves. Montague Rhodes James (1865-1936) is, for me, the Grand Master of the Terrifying Tale, and for those not acquainted with his works---well, I envy you the chilling delight of meeting up with James's menacing, atmospheric prose for the first time. Read the tal
"A must read for the true-blue aficionado. James is best known now for his supernatural stories, regarded by many as being among the best ever written."--Library Journal
He was in turn a Fellow, Dean, and Provost of Kings College, Cambridge, and then finally the Provost of Eton, where he died a much-loved and revered figure in 1936. M.R. James was one of the most accomplished scholars of his generation, a brilliant, internationally known authority on early Christian manuscripts. Michael Chabon is the author of Wonder Boys, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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