{"product_id":"2940156817153","title":"Stories That Inspired M.R. James - Volume 1","description":"Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a scholar and antiquarian who lived almost entirely within the halls of Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. Although prolific in his chosen academic fields of medieval history and literature, theology and architecture, today he is known to horror fans as the Master of the English ghost story, celebrated for tales such as 'O Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' and 'A Warning to the Curious'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eM.R. James read voraciously, and wrote about his favourite genre stories in essays such as 'Some Remarks On Ghost Stories' (1929) and 'Ghosts - Treat them Gently!' (1931), his introduction to an anthology called 'Ghosts and Marvels' (1924), and his lovingly curated compilation of JS Le Fanu's stories 'Madame Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery' (1923).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume contains twelve such tales, and is being published to accompany our coverage of these stories on 'A Podcast to the Curious', the M.R. James podcast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA True Relation of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe,\u003cbr\u003eThe White and the Black by Erckmann-Chatrain,\u003cbr\u003eThe Familiar by Sheridan Le Fanu,\u003cbr\u003eThe Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton,\u003cbr\u003eThe Signalman by Charles Dickens,\u003cbr\u003eThe Open Door by Margaret Oliphant,\u003cbr\u003eThe Upper Berth by F. Marion Crawford,\u003cbr\u003eFeatherston's Story by Mrs Henry Wood,\u003cbr\u003eThe Story of the Moor Road by Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard and Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard,\u003cbr\u003eThe Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs,\u003cbr\u003eThe Death-mask by Henrietta Dorothy Everett,\u003cbr\u003eNegotium Perambulans by E.F. Benson.","brand":"William Ross","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47168292192496,"sku":"2940156817153","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940156817153_p0.jpg?v=1764088151","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940156817153","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}