Collected Ghost Stories

CONDITION: Near Fine book. Some minor wear to the bottom edge. Near Fine slipcase. Some minor shelf wear and marks. DETAILS: First Thus. Print run: 1st Printing. Illustrated by Francis Mosley. 25 × 17 × 6 cm. ABOUT THIS BOOK: "In the quiet corners of ancient libraries and the shadow of lonely coastal dunes, something stirs." Montague Rhodes James permanently redefined the supernatural tale, abandoning gothic castles and swooning heroines for the unsettling terror of the mundane. In these masterfully crafted stories, scholarly curiosity turns into a fight for survival. An academic uncovers a strange whistle on an English beach; an antiquarian handles a cursed ancient text; an unsuspecting traveler glances through a window to see a face that should not exist. James’s ghosts are not tragic phantoms, but ancient, malevolent, and terrifyingly physical entities, summoned from the deep past by the well-meaning blunders of the living. This definitive collection brings together his most celebrated tales of quiet dread, where the comfort of everyday life slowly unravels into pure, claustrophobic nightmare. Elegant, deeply atmospheric, and profoundly chilling, these stories remain the gold standard of British ghost fiction.…