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Capturing the Texas Rancher's Heart

Classic supernatural author

Penguin
October 2005
400 pages
ISBN: 0143039393
Trade Size (reprint)
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COUNT MAGNUS AND OTHER GHOST STORIES

M. R. James

The only annotated edition of M. R. James’s writings
currently available, Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories
contains the entire first two volumes of James’s ghost
stories, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and More Ghost
Stories of an Antiquary. These volumes are both the
culmination of the nineteenth-century ghost story tradition
and the inspiration for much of the best twentieth-century
work in this genre. Included in this collection are such
landmark tales as "Count Magnus," set in the wilds of
Sweden; "Number 13," a distinctive tale about a haunted
hotel room; "Casting the Runes," a richly complex tale of
sorcery that served as the basis for the classic horror
film Curse of the Demon; and "Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to
You, My Lad," one of the most frightening tales in
literature. The appendix includes several rare texts,
including "A Night in King’s College Chapel," James’s first
known ghost story.