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Collected Ghost Stories

Montague Rhodes James

1942352 pagesabout 5–8 hours
1942
first published
  • 1942Edward Arnold · ENGISBN 9780713152340
  • 1992Wordsworth Editions · 352 pages · ENGISBN 9781853260537
  • 1994Wordsworth Editions Ltd · 368 pages · ENGISBN 9781853268397
  • 2011Oxford University Press · 468 pages · ENGISBN 9780199568840
  • 1992Wordsworth Classics · ENGISBN 9781573353632
  • 2007Wordsworth Editions Ltd · 368 pages · ENGISBN 9781840225518
  • 2017Oxford University Press · 512 pages · ENGISBN 9780198797364
  • 1974Palgrave Macmillan · ENGISBN 9789997538468
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Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, James's stories draw on the terrors of the everyday. Documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and night-time settings where imagination runs riot.

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