A pleasing terror ebook

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF. Skip to main content. This service is more advanced with JavaScript available. Advertisement Hide. Authors Authors and affiliations E. This is a preview of subscription content, log in to check access. The volume is humonguous: over pgs! Great reading for rainy afternoons! I already own most of the works of M. James in multiple books, and in ebook form as well they're all free on Gutenberg.

Why did I buy this collection then? Because having already read most of the easily accessible stories, I wanted anything more I could get. The additional and new to me essays, prefaces, etc.

Of course I'm the kind of person that, while reading an essay I already own most of the works of M. Of course I'm the kind of person that, while reading an essay James wrote about ghost stories he recommends, took notes so I could then look up and read all of his suggestions.

Eventually, since it's a long list. I have to add here that I discovered this version of collected tales via the M. James podcast: A Podcast to the Curious. Well worth taking a look at, because the website itself often has links to various places with more information on each of the stories. I'm still in the process of reading A Pleasing Terror because I couldn't make myself skip over the stories I was familiar with and go on to read the new content.

Instead I found myself reading through everything and enjoying the stories all over again. It almost makes up for not being able to read Michael Cox's James biography that's out of print.

It sells for ridiculous prices, someone really needs to reissue it. More when I finish, and a quote or two if I can remember where to look. I'm bad about marking my place in ebooks. English country legends as recorded in the nineteenth century include spectres quote as odd as these, alongside the more 'normal' white ladies and headless horsemen.

In Cheshire, there was a ghostly pig with its back stuck all over with lighted candles, and also a headless duck; at Bagbury in Shropshire, a wicked squire 'came again' as a huge, roaring, skinless bull; a road in Crowborough Sussex was haunted by a spectral bag of soot which chased people. Not to mention the bag of soot. In Appendix V: An M. James Letter, Introduced and Annotated by Jack Adrian , the essay begins with the discussion of book collecting, specifically by the essay's author and a friend of his, Nicholas Llewelyn Davies.

The same Llewelyn Davies who, in a group of five brothers, provided J. Barrie with the inspiration for the Lost Boys and Peter Pan. The author happens to pick up a collectable copy of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary , and then he mentions it to Davies, who "said he couldn't be sure exactly but he rather thought all of his MRJ ghost story volumes were signed by MRJ himself.

As a conversation-stopper. I pressed him to dig them out. But the story leading up to it is interesting in itself. Oh and the letter discusses H. Lovecraft and his essay Supernatural in Horror and Literature. James as the figure that everything eventually leads to or from.

A bit later: Finished, and now the list of M. All for the good, of course, especially since a great deal of what James felt were good ghost stories are still available, and in public domain. Lubbock, who had known James from working with him at Eton, and had traveled with him abroad multiple times. This chapter allowed me a glimpse of James as he was known to colleagues and friends. He himself used to say that at his first children's party he 'burst into tears and requested to be led from the apartment;' this indeed happened at Burton hall, Sir Charles Bunbury's, when he was six years old, and he was easily comforted by being taken to the library and left there.

James' "unshaken and unaltered" faith:] " In Will Stone, one of two who went with him on his first tour in Denmark, died; and when James McBryde died five years later, and a little group of sorely stricken friends met at King's, Monty said as we were talking of McB.

But he would not merely impersonate particular individuals. Monty and his brother Herbert somehow transformed themselves into two village tradesmen.

The characters, as they say at the beginning of novels, 'were purely fictitious;' Herbert was Johnson a butcher, and Monty was a grocer called Barker; and it must be understood that they were Barker and Johnson to each other and no one else. Barker would suggest to Johnson that he tampered with his weights, to be accused in turn of putting sand in his sugar. All this began in private school days, and was renewed whenever they met.

An Essential Read If you are an admirer of M. James and his ghost stories, then this is THE book to read. It's absolutely full of details pertaining to all the stories. Plus, it contains essays and features that cover all the aspects of James' life and works. Also, it includes those stories and references which are not available in Oxford or Penguin editions.

Highly recommended. Aug 18, Marsten rated it it was ok Shelves: terror. No me ha gustado mucho Espero que estos no sean todos los mejores relatos del autor This is the sort of book that sts the model for other cllections. It gathers together everything that you would want in an M R James collection, is annotated, includes additional material, has had typos corrected. It can be used by a serious scholar on the subject. My hope is that we will see similar collections from the publisher in the future.

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