Chilling Ghost Stories
Written by M. R. James, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce and
Narrated by Anthony Donovan
4.5/5
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M. R. James
Montague Rhodes James was born in 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage, Kent, where his father was a curate, but the family moved soon afterwards to Great Livermere in Suffolk. James attended Eton College and later King's College Cambridge where he won many awards and scholarships. From 1894 to 1908 he was Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and from 1905 to 1918 was Provost of King's College. In 1913, he became Vice-Chancellor of the University for two years. In 1918 he was installed as Provost of Eton. A distinguished medievalist and scholar of international status, James published many works on biblical and historical antiquarian subjects. He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1930. His ghost story writing began almost as a divertissement from his academic work and as a form of entertainment for his colleagues. His first collection, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary was published in 1904. He never married and died in 1936.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An interesting collection and well worth a listen. Don't expect every story to involve ghosts though:)
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Classic ghostly tales well written by authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde amongst others. I much prefer these kinds of ghost stories than to the ones that occur today filled with violence and horror. These stories are of a much more subtle kind.