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Montague Rhodes James Â- M. R. James Â- was an English academic and provost of King's College and Eton. He started writing ghost stories to entertain his friends one hundred and fifty years after his birth he is now revered as the father of the modern English ghost story. This gorgeous hardback contains all thirty-five of M. R. James's highly acclaimed ghost stories, including the classics:  Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' and  Canon Alberic's Scrapbook'. As well as a foreword by Clark Ashton Smith and an extended Afterword by Stephen Jones the book is gloriously illustrated by award-winning artist Les Edwards. Montague Rhodes James Â- M. R. James Â- was an English academic and provost of King's College and Eton. He started writing ghost stories to entertain his friends one hundred and fifty years after his birth he is now revered as the father of the modern English ghost story. This gorgeous hardback contains all thirty-five of M. R. James's highly acclaimed ghost stories, including the classics:  Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' and  Canon Alberic's Scrapbook'. As well as a foreword by Clark Ashton Smith and an extended Afterword by Stephen Jones the book is gloriously illustrated by award-winning artist Les Edwards.