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A collection of short ghost stories all written by the author. Like many collections, it's a mixed bag - some of the stories are really quite effective with the ambience & creeping sense of menace, whereas others either wander off into too much extraneous detail or frustratingly fizzle out just as they're getting good. Given James's background, it shouldn't come as a surprise that so many of the stories are based around religion & the Church.

Reading this again even though my Literary Ghosts class has drawn to a close 💀🧛🏻‍♂️🐦‍⬛👻 #hyggehour very cozy cleaning out the fridge 😂🎉 still counts as self care even if it isn‘t pretty or luxurious

Do you like ghost's stories? This is YOUR BOOK!
Short stories but really scared and true (maybe) stories...

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Some of my absolute favourite ghost stories for today‘s #scarathlonphotochallenge 👻

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This collection of short ghost stories is great for fans of classic literature or fans of H.P. Lovecraft. Personally I found quite a few to me anticlimactic and not entirely spooky, though most did have a dark and gothic atmosphere with tension until the end. Due to the writing and historical context I did get confused at times, so my enjoyment may differ to others. The ones I did enjoy, I loved. They were dark, slightly eerie and spine chilling.

What a fun question! 😊
A ghost/creepy story book for sure - the tagged one is the first that came to mind. 🔥🍂
Reading this one atm,which would also fit perfectly:
Strange tales from Japan: 99 chilling stories of yokai, ghosts, demons and the supernatural by Keisuke Nishimoto

#SundayFunday #campfirereading #autumnreading #ghoststories #horrorstories
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Feel like playing? @hannah-leeloo @enchanted_bibliophile ?

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Woohoo! Thank you so much, Jenny! 🖖
👻👻👻 I have only now found time to open your parcel - thank you!!! 👻👻👻
I really really enjoy it! And the socks... Spot on! 👌😊

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👻 Thank you again for organising everything, Lynn! Awesome! 👻

Fantastic narration by Derek Jacobi perfectly situated me into these chilling ghost stories. I like ghost stories around Christmas and these have just the right amount of creepiness without becoming disturbing. These stories usually surround antiquated objects which drew me in. I‘ve fallen in love with this style of ghost story. I finished the first volume as my last book of 2020 and this is my first book of 2021.

#HappyHalloween #GhostStories Happy Halloween all you Ghouls and Goblins! Here‘s wishing you a Spooky and healthy All Souls Day!

Spent most of this evening having some quality time with my MR James complete supernatural stories book, but I thought I‘d review as a group so I don‘t clog everyone‘s feed too much! I enjoyed all of these but I think the shorter stories are my favourites, they feel so much more focused and they hit me harder.

@StayCurious #scarathlon2020 #teamharkness +105 for the stories +1 participation

Torn between Halloween and buying new summer clothes 🎃😰

Another low Pick. The writing style can get a bit heavy, and some stories are on the long side, but when I was in the right mood for them, these were really good. Creepy without necessarily being gory.

"Hardly anything to my mind can compare with a good hour's reading after a hard day's work; far better than wasting the whole evening at a friend's house"

As much as I like my friends, I agree ? with this statement.

"His interrupter was one of those intelligent men with a pointed beard and a flannel shirt, of whom the last quarter of the 19th century was, it seemed to me, very prolific."

I'd argue the past decade or so of the 21st century hasn't been short of bearded, flannel-shirted dudes either ?

#NamasteNovember Today‘s prompt is #Haunting, this book is a collection of my favourite ghost stories.

#FALLISBOOKED - Day Thirty-One - #HALLOWEEN wishing everyone a wonderful Halloween whatever their plans.

Another fun collection of short ghost stories. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

M R James was famous as a writer of ghost stories, so that makes him a #GhostWriter

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Here's a few ideas:

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/812...

Nearly literally LOLd on the train at "a person not in the story" ?

A ghost story by M.R. James, a master of the form.

#Thirteen
#NovemberByTheNumbers

Some classic chills at my library's adult story time this month.

This is, by far, my favourite collection of short stories. M.R. James is a master storyteller. #shortstories #booktober

M.R. James is a master of the good, old-fashioned ghost story. Try "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad". #Scarybooks #SomethingforSept #FolioSociety

OTD in 1816, Byron challenged his four house guests to write a ghost story. The results - including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidori's Vampyre - changed fiction forever. Here are some key works influenced by gothic fiction from the last 200 years - & I may do more! If you have reccs, share!

Reading is the closest humans can come to having superpowers. Imagining your way into other rooms, other lands, other lives - basically, astral projection.

Several of these are ice-on-spine terrifying. James is the gold standard of ghost stories for me.