| Author |
James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862-1936 |
| LoC No. |
86170144
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| Title |
A Warning to the Curious, and Other Ghost Stories
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| Note |
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Warning_to_the_Curious_and_Other_Ghost_Stories
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| Note |
Reading ease score: 84.3 (6th grade). Easy to read.
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| Contents |
The haunted doll's house -- The uncommon prayer-book -- A neighbor's landmark -- A view from a hill -- A warning to the curious -- An evening's entertainment.
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| Credits |
Emmanuel Ackerman, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)
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| Summary |
"A Warning to the Curious, and Other Ghost Stories" by M. R. James is a collection of supernatural short stories written in the early 20th century. This anthology follows various protagonists destined to confront eerie and unsettling events related to antiquities and the past, as they encounter remnants of histories that refuse to fade quietly into obscurity. The opening of the collection presents the story "The Haunted Doll’s House." It introduces Mr. Dillet, a collector who acquires an ornate dollhouse with a mysterious past. Upon bringing it home, he experiences a supernatural phenomenon that merges his reality with unsettling, ghostly visions of the dollhouse's previous inhabitants. As he unravels the history connected to the house, the narrative unfolds layers of horror and tension that hints at dark secrets and unresolved tales, setting the tone for the chilling ghost stories to follow in this intriguing anthology. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
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| Subject |
Short stories, English
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| Subject |
Ghost stories, English
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| Subject |
English fiction -- 20th century
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| Category |
Text |
| EBook-No. |
66881 |
| Release Date |
Dec 4, 2021 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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