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Sus cuentos creados fueron publicados gracias a sus amigos editores, Historias de fantasmas de un anticuario (1904), su primera obra impresa de este género y que reúne 8 cuentos fundamentales para explicar la forma de entender el miedo en la literatura que este autor creó acaso sin querer pero cuya influencia fue fundamental en décadas posteriores.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "Wailing Well". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "Casting The Runes". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This volume starts with the famous M. R. James story of occult revenge, "Casting the Runes", about a slighted occultist out for murderous revenge using his diabolical black arts to achieve it. It was adapted into the equally chilling movie Night of the Demon in 1957. Next up is another famous classic, W. W. Jacobs' "The Monkeys Paw", a brilliantly written tale of greed and getting what you wish for. The third story is "Hop-Frog" by Edgar Allan Poe - a classic yarn about the grisly revenge conjured up by a mistreated court jester.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Experiment". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This 17th century treatise on demonology, written by the respected theologian, Catholic priest, and exorcist, Rev. Father Sinistrari, examines a particular class of spirits known as the incubus and succubus. These minor demons crave sex and often attack their victims while they sleep. Though incubus and succubus are considered less dangerous than possessing demons, they can be relentless in pursuit of their desire and grow violent when resisted.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "Martin's Close". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This an the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "Two Doctors". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is an unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Uncommon Prayer Book". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged recording of M R James' excellent story "Canon Alberic's Scrap-book". Read by David Collings it is sure to scare and delight in equal measure!

Dans ce livre, je ne m'occupe que des histoires apocryphes (Adam et Ève, Salomon et les démons, Abraham). Ces histoires ne sont pas vraies, mais elles sont très anciennes ; certaines d'entre elles, je pense, sont belles, et toutes me semblent intéressantes. Si vous lisez la page de titre de ce livre, vous verrez qu'il contient des histoires tirées "de certains des livres apocryphes les moins connus de l'Ancien Testament".

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "An Episode of Cathedral History". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "Number 13". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "A Neighbour's Landmark". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

Welcome to Doug Bradley's Spinechillers, Volume Four, part of what is on the way of becoming the world's largest collection of high quality, classic horror short-story audiobooks. We start with Doug Bradley's well-researched introduction to the authors and stories featured in this volume. Launching us into "Lost Hearts", M. R. James' creepy tale of ghostly children seeking revenge and peace from the man who caused their untimely demise.

This is an unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Haunted Dolls House". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "A School Story". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

Montague Rhodes James (Goodnestone, 1 de agosto de 1862 - Eton, 12 de junio de 1936), anticuario, medievalista y escritor británico de cuentos de terror. Su infancia transcurrió entre altas y tupidas bibliotecas repletas de libros antiguos, en su mayoría textos religiosos, en el condado de Kent, Los padres de M.R. James, optaron por brindarle una educación acorde con sus preferencias y lo enviaron al prestigioso Eton College. Continuó sus estudios en la ciudad de Cambridge, en el King's College, otro colegio al cual sólo unos pocos tenían acceso.

M. R. James es sin duda uno de los más significados miembros de esa característica saga de eruditos ingleses que compaginaron y compaginan su obra científica y académica con la literatura popular. Su obra no desmerece a la de Poe o Lovecraft.