My favourites include Wailing Well, The Mezzotint, The Ash Tree, I’ll Come to You, My Lad but it is The Haunted Dolls' House that made me shiver while in a public place. There are many stories worthy of praise in this collection. It comes alive with a story that is too terrible to describe… And he is right to think so for every night, at exactly one o’clock the doll’s house come alive. From the very first moments, something seems to be wrong. In the title story, an antiques dealer finds himself as the temporary owner of a beautiful, unsettlingly realistic doll’s house. Because she is cool like that…Ĭan you actually get scared reading a ghost story while you’re in a train, in a calm Thursday evening, with people all around you? Especially when you are a seasoned ghost - stories reader? Actually, you can. ‘’I don’t recall having seen this author on your shelves’’.
A few weeks ago, my mum went to our favourite bookshop to pick up an order and took the initiative to buy the collection. The strange thing is that for some unknown reason I hadn’t actually read any of his stories. My first ‘’meeting’’ with M.R.James was through the marvelous Classic Ghost Stories series narrated by the living legend that answers to the name Robert Powell.
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