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My boss crocheted this little ghostie and it pairs nicely with my current read and the #ghost prompt for today! #Scarathlon @Clwojick @StayCurious #SkeletonCrew @Emilymdxn

A short illustrated version of short stories. Creepy but not as spooky as I'd hoped. Good if you want a quick read though. 3*
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This is my second time reading this book. The stories are sparse and straightforward, but that's what I enjoy about them. The endings are vague, but that's okay. I miss the subtlety of horror in modern fiction. I also appreciate the sense of a genteel and orderly world being unsettled. In a messed up planet, it's nice escapism. I would recommend viewing the BBC adaptations that were a staple at Christmas. Many are free on YouTube. 😊

Heading into October with this spooky, shivery classic. Nobody wrote a ghost story like M.R. James! #Ghosts #Scarathalon #Ghostober #Halloween #AllHallows

Just want I wanted! 🖤 8 stories that are humorous, grisly, and chilling. All of them are told at 2nd or 3rd hand, allowing enough distance to wink about the main characters who are usually bookish bachelors, curious but heedless, and play way too much golf. Their studious inclinations lead them into trouble, sometimes doom. And the threat is nothing so obvious as a tapestried gothic chamber. In these stories, ANYTHING can be haunted. 👻

Anyone recognize this? The last story in the collection has to do with a stained glass puzzle and it makes me think of this video game I just watched my partner play.

December is for ghost stories! I‘m loving this collection (⬆️ is the background of my tablet. I‘m reading from Project Gutenberg). I enjoy that they can be cheeky, grisly, and chilling at the same time. And such fun to read aloud! “Parkins pondered.” “A very bright frosty moon.” Isn‘t that fun? 👻

“The ceiling was flat, and had been adorned by a seventeenth-century artist with a strange and hideous 'Last Judgement', full of lurid flames, falling cities, burning ships, crying souls, and brown and smiling demons.”

Detail from Emanuel Vigeland Mausoleum (20th century) in Oslo (photo from VisitNorway.com).

An ok collection of ghost stories. I think I'd enjoy some of James's longer works. These were a little too short to get interested in too much.

Happened across this funny quote in the otherwise delightfully creepy ghost stories of M.R. James #serialreader 👻

So creepy! My fave stories were "The Mezzotint" and "Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad". Would love to re-read these sometime.

This quote tickled my funnybone.

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(From the story "Count Magnus")

Cozy morning reading.