JAMES, M. R.

£650 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories. First edition of James's fourth and final collection of stories. Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) is widely regarded as the father of the modern ghost story. A medieval scholar and librarian, he began writing ghost stories at Cambridge and became known for his candlelit readings.

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