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Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own...' Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M. R. James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton and Cambridge. His classic su ...Show more
Complete Ghost Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by David Stuart (AFT) M. R.; Davies James
Category: No Category | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In another infinitesimal flash he had taken it in. Pale, dusky skin, covering nothing but bones and tendons of appalling strength; coarse black hairs, longer than ever grew on a human hand; nails rising from the ends of the fingers and curving sharply down and forward, grey horny and wrinkled. He flew o ...Show more
Ghost Stories by M. R. James
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin English Library
The voice - it was little more than a whisper - sounded so hoarse and angry, and yet as if it came from a long, long way off . . . 'The aim of a good ghost story is to make the blood freeze, pleasurably, and this M. R. James achieves to perfection in these wonderful stories. His most atmospheric setting ...Show more
The Self and Memory by Denise R. Beike (Editor); James M. Lampinen (Editor); Douglas A. Behrend (Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: Studies in Self and Identity Ser.
Noted scholars from a broad range of sub-disciplines in psychology discuss the ways in which the memories of our lives come to influence who we are, our personalities, and our emotional functioning. Other topics covered include how our personalities and self-concepts influence what we remember from our ...Show more
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