![]() This edition reprints for the first time in recent years the four original illustrations that James McBride prepared while James was working on this, his first collection. ![]() Among them are such favorites as "Number Thirteen," "Canon Alberic's Scrap-book," and "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad." Common to all of them is the breath of "the evil that dieth not but lieth in wait." James, Provost of Eton, one of the most formidable scholars that England has ever produced, who has drawn upon an unmatched knowledge of the hidden byways of the past to form a series of inimitable stories. It has been reprinted more times than any other book in this field, and it contains several of the best ghost stories in the English language. First printed in 1904, it is the landmark book that established the modern horror story. In the twentieth-century literature of the supernatural, the single most important book, in the opinion of most scholars and enthusiasts, is Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, by Montague Rhodes James. More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary is a horror short story collection by British writer M. ![]()
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