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An excellent collection of short classic ghost stories. Ghost stories of an antiquary and this second volume are both very fine. Each and every story has a very perfect logical and terrifying ending. Much better stories than the stories in Stephen king's Skeleton Crew.
M.R. James is one of the best old-school ghost story writers ever. His work is not in your face scary, it is eerie. His stories can be slow paced but you read them with growing discomfort. Imagination is essential for his writings.
Some good ol' old timey spooks
This collection was a lot of fun. Even though some of the stories were very wordy compared to more contemporary tales, it was easy to get past that because of the vivid pictures the words painted. There were a couple of stories that I thought were just okay, but there were also some real atmospheric knockouts. I think my favorite in this collection was "Mister Humphreys and His Inheritance", but I could see that possibly changing upon a re-read. These tales were a good time for fans of classic h...
This is the second published collection of short stories by MR James. There are several highly influential works in this volume including my three favorites "The Rose Garden", "Casting the Runes" and "Martin's Close."4 STARS
(Project Gutenberg ebook)Unlike the first Ghosts of an Antiquary, some of these stories genuinely spooked me, while still retained th sense of fun and a bit of sly humour besides. There’s a tone of James having such joy with references and wordplay that were beyond my awareness, so some of the reading of what should be cozy neat tales led me to a bit of research and slowed the progress a bit, but other than that quite fun to read and get lightly spooky!
I picked up this book during my search for three horror stories which I had read long long back (when I was around 13/14 years old) but have never forgotten. Casting the runes, how love came to professor Guildea and one other story with a cat whose name I have unfortunately forgotten. I was delighted when I saw this volume with Casting the Runes and other stories in it imagining more thrills in store. I had forgotten, however, that having experienced the process of growing up, it would mostly be...
