A review by flowersinthelibrary
Ghost Stories by M.R. James

5.0

A must read if you're into horror literature. The power of these stories lies in what they leave to the reader's imagination. They usually start with a trip of some kind, some nights spent in a comfortable hotel room, and then the discovery of certain legend from that particular town, some superstition the villagers refuse to talk about... and the supernatural elements begin to appear slowly: somebody taps at the window, the protagonist hears someone calling his name, but nobody's around, or he sees a strange figure with the corner of his eye, hiding in that corner of the room which the candlelight can't reach...