Summary
Montague Rhodes James: Ghosts
"And every now and then one question haunts me: whether there are, here and there, secret places where some strange creatures still dwell, which once upon a time everyone could see and address them as he went about his daily business, while now only at rare intervals, in a series of years, some one crosses his path with them and becomes aware of them." M.R. James. The stories in the collection Ghosts, together with those in the previous one, Whistle and I'll Come to You, are testimonies of a unique alchemy born from leisure, from a hobby turned into a life calling, strengthened by a natural talent for observing through darkened glasses, for turning the positive into a negative, and a storytelling talent carved out, almost instinctively, to be like the most lethal weapon, the equivalent of a sharp blade for picking at the nerves first listeners, and then, until today, readers.
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