{"product_id":"the-ghost-stories-of-m-r-james-3","title":"The Ghost Stories of M.R. James","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Stories of M.R. James \u003c\/i\u003ecollects the tales that best illustrate the author's quiet mastery of the ghost story form. Running through each of these stories is a slowly escalating sense of unease and dread, which ultimately shifts into the wildly uncanny. James' characters exist in a world of ancient objects whose atrocious histories begin to repeat when they are disturbed, and the blinkered repression common to James' narratives only amplifies the shock of the spectral appearance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eM.R. James\u003c\/b\u003e (1862-1936) was an English medievalist scholar best remembered as the author of many of the finest ghost stories in the English language. \u003cb\u003eRoger Luckhurst \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of modern literature whose books include\u003ci\u003e Late Victorian Gothic Tales\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eZombies: A Cultural History, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as books on \u003ci\u003eThe Shining \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAlien\u003c\/i\u003e for the BFI Film Classics series. He has also edited several of the Oxford World's Classics, including H. G. Wells' \u003ci\u003eThe Time Machine\u003c\/i\u003e, in addition to writing for \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"British Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615276503314,"sku":"9780712352505","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b93b520e-d0d2-43f4-9a2e-b3f3817e0911.jpg?v=1732480563","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-ghost-stories-of-m-r-james-3","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}