![]() ![]() James was also a talented actor who produced and acted in several plays. Most of his stories are based on things that he himself was interested in: old books and manuscripts, ancient houses and medieval history. He also gave a new perspective to the clichéd ghost story of the Victorian Gothic genre and used more realistic and believable plots and settings. ![]() His eerie tales are unique in their subtlety and the sheer horror they evoke long after you've finished reading them. A master of his craft, MR James was an academic and administrator of King's College, Cambridge and later of Eton. ![]() These and other delicious, goose bump evoking tales are part of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by Montague R James. A picture that tells stories that change according to who is viewing it. A young orphan is sent to live with his elderly cousin, a secretive man who is obsessed with immortality. An English tourist in a small, rural town in the South of France discovers an ancient manuscript with a strange illustration on the last page. ![]()
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