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By M. R. James

M. R. James was once born in Kent, England in 1862. James got here to writing fiction really overdue, now not publishing his first selection of brief tales – Ghost tales of an Antiquary (1904) – till the age of forty two. sleek students now see James as having redefined the ghost tale for the 20 th century and he's noticeable because the founding father of the 'antiquarian ghost story'. we're republishing those vintage works in reasonable, top of the range, smooth versions with a new introductory biography of the author.

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