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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
by John MacBride, M.R. James, E.F. Bleiler
So this was more or less my first reading experience with M.R James' work, though I had read one of his stories before, "Oh Whistle & I'll Come to You my Lad", in a collection featuring "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" so I had some idea of what to expect. That being said was it as good as I hoped it would be?
.............I'll just kill the suspense for a moment to say it was Damn awesome (in that old fashioned spooky way) I mean like seriously, one story had spiders in it which came out of a tree that was used for witch trials.
Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself here, each tale had it's unique scary twist and the atmosphere was usually thick with tension so as to represent the key moments when the normalcies of life were coalesed with the ghostly happenings to create a truly riveting story, part of which is owed to the writer's incredibly detailed but matter of fact descriptions of the supernatural phenomenon.
I feel this would do well for those who enjoy classic horror, despite being written on the flowery side, and those who just enjoy a good ghost story. I'm sure the effect is significantly improved when sitting by a reading lamp in a dark room with a hot drink.
You'll be fine though....probably
.............I'll just kill the suspense for a moment to say it was Damn awesome (in that old fashioned spooky way) I mean like seriously, one story had spiders in it which came out of a tree that was used for witch trials.
Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself here, each tale had it's unique scary twist and the atmosphere was usually thick with tension so as to represent the key moments when the normalcies of life were coalesed with the ghostly happenings to create a truly riveting story, part of which is owed to the writer's incredibly detailed but matter of fact descriptions of the supernatural phenomenon.
I feel this would do well for those who enjoy classic horror, despite being written on the flowery side, and those who just enjoy a good ghost story. I'm sure the effect is significantly improved when sitting by a reading lamp in a dark room with a hot drink.
You'll be fine though....probably