The Haunted Dolls' House And Other Ghost Stories Av M. R. James

<b>Stories by a visionary master of supernatural fiction</b><br> <br>In volume two of the only annotated edition of M. R. James''s complete writings currently available, Penguin Classics brings together tales from James''s final two works, <i>A Thin Ghost and Others</i> and <i>A Warning to the Curious</i>. In these stories, James continues his fearsome transformation of the ghost story from its nineteenth-century heritage, drawing upon his deep knowledge of medieval history and biblical curiosa. This edition features a number of little-known tales that have rarely been assembled, including “The Fenstation Witch,” presented here for the first time in a corrected text, a new translation of “Twelve Medieval Ghost Stories,” and a number of James’s essays.<br> <br>Edited and with an introduction and notes by S. T. Joshi.<br><br>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With