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betray your friends along the way

knowledgeable guide” (Booklist)

famed detective Lillian Pentecost

or a newcomer looking to take your first adventures in nature

diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation

The Ghost Stories of M.R. James SS_Gift_Guide betray your friends along theThe Ghost Stories of M. R. James collects the tales that best illustrate the author's quiet mastery of the ghost story form. Running through each of these stories is a slowly escalating sense of unease and dread, which ultimately shifts into the wildly uncanny. James characters exist in a world of ancient objects whose atrocious histories begin to repeat when they are disturbed, and the blinkered repression common to James narratives only amplifies