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[The British Library] ß Meddling with Ghosts: Stories in the Tradition of M.R. James ✓ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Meddling with Ghosts: Stories in the Tradition of M.R. James A Customer said Indispensable for those who love ghost stories. This book is well worth the purchase price, both for the first-rate stories it contains and for the extensive, annotated bibliography it includes. The stories give a comprehensive overview of the "Jamesian" ghost story, and Campbell's brief notes before each are interesting and will be helpful to those who wish to read more by the authors. The bibliography that concludes "Meddling With Ghosts" would justify the book's purchase all b
| Title | : | Meddling with Ghosts: Stories in the Tradition of M.R. James |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.23 (658 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0712311254 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-24 |
| Language | : | English |
A Customer said Indispensable for those who love ghost stories. This book is well worth the purchase price, both for the first-rate stories it contains and for the extensive, annotated bibliography it includes. The stories give a comprehensive overview of the "Jamesian" ghost story, and Campbell's brief notes before each are interesting and will be helpful to those who wish to read more by the authors. The bibliography that concludes "Meddling With Ghosts" would justify the book's purchase all by itself: it includes enough authors . 16 stories in the tradition of M. R. James The sixteen stories in this collection easily satisfy the criterion, "stories in the tradition of M. R. James (MRJ)" and who should know this better than the writer who selected and introduced them, Ramsey Campbell? Some of the stories such as "The Upper Berth" (1886) by F. Marion Crawford can be found in other anthologies, but others were completely new to me, e.g. "Petey" (1979) by T. E. D. Klein. Campbell also includes one of his own best stories, "The Guide" (1989). Hours of boredom---minutes of shrill Terror. Worth it. Ghost tale anthologies are always a mixed bag: a few tasty, grisly chillers to spike an otherwise tepid punch bowl of lackluster stories included to plump up the book and appease the publisher. "Meddling with Ghosts" provides no exception to the rule, but British horror grandmaster Ramsey Campbell keeps an exceptionally tight focus to his collection and consequently serves up the a few rare, ghoulish treasures amidst the fodder.Campbell ("Alone with the Horrors", "The
Jackson and "D.N.J.", and tales from more recent practitioners, including Fritz Leiber and Terry Lamsley. The collection also includes a checklist of writers in the Jamesian tradition.. This collection offers some of the best stories from authors who influenced James, such as Sheridan Le Fanu and Augustus Jessopp, stories from his contemporaries, such as T.G
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