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A Warning to the Curious (Fantasy and Horror Classics) Online IaY1S (Read download) A Warning to the Curious (Fantasy and Horror Classics) Online [IaY1S.ebook] A Warning to the Curious (Fantasy and Horror Classics) Pdf Free M. R. James ePub | *DOC | audiobook | ebooks | Download PDF Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #7717079 in Books M R James 2015-12-01 2015-12-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.50 x .8 x 5.50l, .12 #File Name: 147330551930 pagesA Warning to the Curious Fantasy and Horror Classics | File size: 75.Mb M. R. James : A Warning to the Curious (Fantasy and Horror Classics) before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised A Warning to the Curious (Fantasy and Horror Classics): 13 of 14 people found the following review helpful. Outrageous!By J. R. DunkleEven though this is the name of one of M.R. James' beloved collections of ghost stories, what is being sold here is no collection. Instead, it's the sale--for ten bucks, no less!--of a single short story of about five pages that is in the public domain and may be freely found by searching the Internet. Not only that, but the copy is full of print-to-etext typos. In other words, it's a scam. This is shameful, and if it and all the other five- or six-page "ebooks" aren't taken down, they will be very likely to drive Kindle readers away from using the Kindle Store.3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A haunted crown and a stolen prayer bookBy ealovitt"A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories" (1925) is a very satisfying volume of M. R. James's (MRJ's) supernatural stories. However, it only contains six of his short stories. Instead of purchasing this volume, you might want to consider one of his more complete collections. Ash-Tree Press's "A Pleasing Terror" (2001), contains the complete and heavily annotated supernatural writings of MRJ, and no true Monty fan should be without it.The next best collection, "Casting the Runes and Other Stories" edited by Michael Cox, contains most of MRJ's supernatural stories and is quite a bit cheaper than "A Pleasing Terror."The following stories are included in "A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories":"The Haunted Doll's House"--This story was written for the library of the Queen's Doll's House, and somewhat resembles MRJ's "The Mezzotint" from the earlier "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary." Mr. Dillet buys an unusual doll house in the Strawberry Gothic fashion from an acquaintance, and sets it up in his bedroom. "It was quite six feet long, including the Chapel or Oratory...and the stable on the right." The house is completely furnished and has several inhabitants, including "a gentleman and lady in blue satin and brocade, respectively...and a white haired old gentleman in a long linen night-dress and cap." When the house seems to come alive, it tells a ghastly tale of murder and revenge from beyond the grave."The Uncommon Prayer-book"-- Mr. Davidson strikes up a conversation with an old gentleman on a train and is invited to view a disused Chapel. MRJ engulfs his reader in quaint British dialects in this story of a prayer book that would not stay shut."A Neighbour's Landmark"-- A gentleman spends a wet August afternoon in his host's library and discovers an old pamphlet with two lines from a country song, "That which walks in Betton Wood/ Knows why it walks or why it cries." When the weather clears, he explores the part of his friend's property that used to be called 'Betton Wood.'"A View from a Hill"--A pair of field-glasses made by an old and rather unlikeable watch-maker reveal peculiar landscape features, including a gibbet and something hanging from it. The young man who spots the gibbet decides to pay a visit to it, even though his friend assures him that it no longer exists."A Warning to the Curious"--A young man discovers the hiding place of an ancient crown of East Anglia and is haunted by his finding. As in many of MRJ's stories, curiosity is severely punished."An Evening's Entertainment"--A rather tongue-in-cheek tale as told by MRJ through the auspices of an old grandmother, who is trying to persuade her young grandchildren to stay away from the "little lane that goes up past Collin's cottage." There is a gigantic figure of a man cut into a hill next to the lane, and once the body of a young man was found hanging from an oak nearby. His breast was quite bare and "the bone of it was split through from the top downwards with an axe!" After Grandma's gruesome goings-on, the children are afraid to be sent to bed without a light. M. R. James was born in Kent, England in 1862. James came to writing fiction relatively late, not publishing his first collection of short stories ndash; Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) ndash; until the age of 42. Modern scholars now see James as having redefined the ghost story for the 20th century and he is seen as the founder of the 'antiquarian ghost story'. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions with a brand new introductory biography of the author. About the AuthorM.R. James spent 35 years writing and editing material for Bowhunter magazine, which he founded in 1971. [IaY1S.ebook] A Warning to the Curious (Fantasy and Horror Classics) By M. R. James PDF [IaY1S.ebook] A Warning to the Curious (Fantasy and Horror Classics) By M. R. 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