A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories

A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories is the title of M. R. James' fourth and final collection of ghost stories, published in 1925.

A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories
First edition
AuthorM. R. James
LanguageEnglish
GenreHorror short stories
PublisherEdward Arnold
Publication date
1925
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardback)
Preceded byA Thin Ghost and Others 
Followed byThe Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James 

Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was a medievalist scholar; Provost of King's College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions.

Contents of the original edition

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References

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  • "A Guide to Supernatural Fiction". Archived from the original on 19 February 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-29.
  • Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 240.

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