Ebook: A Thin Ghost and Others

"A Thin Ghost and Others" is M. R. James's third collection of ghost stories, published in 1919. It includes five tales from the master of understated ghastliness: 'The Residence at Whitminster', 'The Diary of Mr Poynter', 'An Episode of Cathedral History', 'The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance' and 'Two Doctors'.


"Montague Rhodes James has, it is clear, an intelligent and scientific knowledge of human nerves and feelings; and knows just how to apportion statement, imagery, and subtle suggestions in order to secure the best results with his readers. He is an artist in incident and arrangement." - H P Lovecraft.


"M. R. James is [...] unsurpassed for applying the very highest caliber of jolt. We find ourselves, at once, in the presence of a writer who bows, as much by instinct as by training, to the governing rule of his genre: that a heavy horror is most amply conveyed by a lightness of touch[...] He knew the sensation of evil rubbing itself against us, like a cat." -The New Yorker, February 13, 2012.