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Ghost Stories

M. R. James

Ghost Stories

Original publication
1904
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
271
Difficulty
★☆☆
Genres
Horror
Translated from
English

Book summary

Scholars and lovers of curiosities discover ancient objects or manuscripts that seem to carry an unsettling presence. Gradually, the ordinary tips into the strange and invisible forces manifest themselves. Each story builds subtle tension in which danger reveals itself step by step. The muted yet oppressive atmosphere sustains constant unease. The author excels in the art of quiet chills, crafting stories in which the supernatural emerges with precision and efficiency.

The plot

Three stories, three frightening objects. In a church in the Pyrenees, the very nervous sacristan sells an English scholar an old album for far too low a price.

The world of the book

Scholars and ancient places. The book brings together eight stories. Most take place in England, but some are set in France, Denmark, Sweden and Germany.

The author

A scholar who read his stories at Christmas. The son of a clergyman, he grew up in a village in the east of England. He became a leading expert on medieval manuscripts. At Cambridge, he ran the university museum, then…

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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