(Read free ebook) Leman Casting the Runes: And Other Ghost Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
·•●- M. R. James, Michael Chabon ·•●-
| #3675963 in Books | 2002-09-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 4.30 x.78 x6.56l, | File Name: 0195151178 | 320 pages
||24 of 24 people found the following review helpful.| An inexplicably dreadful edition|By A Customer|Beware! If you love James or desire to discover him, this new edition of OUP's anthology is not the way to go. A previous and superb OUP edition was edited and annotated by Michael Cox. His fascinating comments are cued by asterisks that are liberally sprinkled throughout the text. In the current version, all the annotations are|||"A must read for the true-blue aficionado.... James is best known now for his supernatural stories, regarded by many as being among the best ever written."--Library Journal|||About the Author||M.R. James
When we think of ghost stories, we tend to think of cub scouts cringing by a fire, s'mores at the ready, as some aging camp counselor tries to scare them witless with yet another tale from the crypt. But as Michael Chabon's marvelous introduction reminds us, the ghost story was once integral to the genre of the short story. Indeed, as he points out, it can be argued that the ghost story was the genre. Dickens's "A Christmas Carol," Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw"-...
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