Country United Kingdom Publication date 1925 Originally published 1925 Preceded by A Thin Ghost and Others Publisher Edward Arnold | Language English Media type Print (Hardback) Followed by Collected Ghost Stories | |
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Genres Short story, Horror fiction Similar M R James books, Ghost books | ||
A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories is the title of M. R. James' fourth and final collection of ghost stories, published in 1925.
Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was a medievalist scholar; Provost of King's College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions.
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A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA