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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

by Montague Rhodes James

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Languages: English, German
  • Content type: Fiction
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"Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" by M. R. James is a collection of ghost stories published in 1904. This landmark volume contains eight tales of supernatural terror, including the famous "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'" and "Count Magnus." James' stories blend scholarly settings with creeping dread, establishing a distinctive style that would define literary ghost fiction. The collection features illustrations by James McBryde, created shortly before his untimely death. These atmospheric tales have been widely adapted for television and continue to influence the ghost story tradition. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists.

  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary and project-gutenberg matched “ghost” and “Ghosts”. Retained metadata contains “ghost” in the title, “ghost” in the description, “ghost” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

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Open Library reports 179 editions; 2 cataloged here.

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1971Dover PublicationsEnglish
  • 9780486227580
  • 0486227588
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2005-07-01Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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