In this collection, scholars and lovers of antiquities stumble on old objects that should never have been found. In a church in the Pyrenees, a visitor buys an old album from a terrified verger. Elsewhere, an old engraving mysteriously changes from one day to the next, and a whistle picked up in some ruins by the sea summons something when you blow it.
M. R. James is the master of the ghost story: in his stories, fear grows out of a detail, a shadow or a noise in an empty room.
You can read each of these short tales in one sitting in the language you are learning.
