He also gave a new perspective to the clichéd ghost story of the Victorian Gothic genre and used more realistic and believable plots and settings. His eerie tales are unique in their subtlety and the sheer horror they evoke long after you've finished reading them. A master of his craft, MR James was an academic and administrator of King's College, Cambridge and later of Eton. These and other delicious, goose bump evoking tales are part of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by Montague R James. A picture that tells stories that change according to who is viewing it.
A young orphan is sent to live with his elderly cousin, a secretive man who is obsessed with immortality. An English tourist in a small, rural town in the South of France discovers an ancient manuscript with a strange illustration on the last page.
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