Phoenix short stories

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Montague Rhodes James (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–18), and of Eton College (1918–36). He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–15). Though James's work as a medievalist and scholar is still highly regarded, he is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some regard as among the best in the genre. James redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. However, James's protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story". Source: [M. R. James]( on Wikipedia.

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A warning to the curious and other stories

Montague Rhodes James

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M. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a recognisable world to one that is indefinably strange, and then unforgettably terrifying. Sheets, pictures, carvings, a dolls house, a lonely beach, a branch tapping on a window - ordinary things take on more than a tinge of dread in the hands of the original master of suspense.

The pit and the pendulum and other stories

Edgar Allan Poe

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Short Stories, Please!

Montague Rhodes James, Saki, Dylan Thomas, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, H. G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, Антон Павлович Чехов, Katherine Mansfield

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[Pit and the Pendulum]( / Edgar Allan Poe -- Boule de suif / Guy de Maupassant -- Baa baa, black sheep / Rudyard Kipling -- On the western circuit / Thomas Hardy -- Lord Arthur Savile's crime / Oscar Wilde -- The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov -- [The speckled band]( / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells -- Tobermory / "Saki" -- Bliss / Katherine Mansfield -- A warning to the curious / M.R. James -- A child's Christmas in Wales / Dylan Thomas.