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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

by Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936)

Montague Rhodes James was a medieval scholar and Provost of King's College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasize the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions.

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary was written as two collections, presented here as two volumes in a single work. There is a short author's preface before the first story in each volume.

Total running time: 10:06:39 Read by Peter Yearsley

Cover design by Kathryn Delaney

Engraving of Hutton Hall, England,

c. 1860

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