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  • By: M. R. James
  • Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
  • Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (511 ratings)
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Summary

A second collection of tales from the master of ghost stories, M. R. James, whose stories have for many years inspired the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas TV adaptations. This volume includes 'A Warning to the Curious', 'The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral', 'The Mezzotint', and 'A Neighbour's Landmark'.
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Excellent

Loved these scary tales well worth a listen
Narrated was also excellent adding to atmosphere

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sense you here !

Absolutely enjoyed the stories. Definitely a book at bedtime, spooky and atmospheric . Sleep if you can?!

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not a bad book

The stories are ok. I would have marked it higher but the music on it was too loud and of a pitch that made me cringe a bit.

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Ghost Stories Beautifully Crafted to haunt you

Jacobi's superb supple voice & minute inflections are in perfect pitch for these old fashioned, disturbingly ambiguous ghost stories. Once encountered I felt the spectral entities remained nearby long after I had ceased reading about their lives, their deaths; they had been imprisoned created too often by Faustian pacts. How can they be set free from their horrible captivity, behind the bars of their often self inflicted and last remaining Too often the-eerily suggested entities feel too close to many of us.

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Excellent selection atmospherically read

A first-class selection of some of James’ best ghost stories scintillatingly read by Jacobi with real atmosphere and delineation.

The stories in this selection are:
- A Warning to the Curious
- The Mezzotint
- The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
- A Neighbour’s Landmark
- After Dark in the Playing Fields

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No Velry Ghostly

Interesting but not at all scary, infact quite shallow I have had better than this but the narrator Derek Jacobi did a wonderful job.

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wonderfully spooky

Fantastic narration as expected. lovely stories which made me smile.
I thoroughly enjoyed this production

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Fantastic stories

A great story teller, has lost nothing with the passage of time. These two volumes are well worth keeping.

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Great stories

I love these ghost stories. I really enjoyed them when the BBC used to have readings on television at Christmas time. Derek Jacob with that wonderful voice is fantastic.

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can't beat a good MR James

Superb stories, full of menace without being gorey and violent, everything a good horror story should be. Excellent narration too makes this an insomniac's dream listen.

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