A review by jenn756
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James

4.0

A collection of ghost stories, which ideally should be read on cold winters nights over Christmas. They are, as the titles suggest, stories where a scholar investigating local history gets more than he bargained for. They are set mainly in England but also in Denmark and Scandanavia. The Victorian era was a golden time for ghost stories - must have been all those isolated creaky country houses and forbidding housekeepers, and M R James is recommended as the foremost writer of the genre.