Casting the Runes (Fantasy and Horror Classics) - Softcover

James, M. R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447405277 ISBN 13: 9781447405276

Verlag: Fantasy and Horror Classics, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

John Harrington Karswell is an outwardly charming but profoundly sinister occultist and alchemist. When a cautious academic, Mr. Dunning, prepares to publish a scathing review of Karswell's work, he is subtly given a strange, inconspicuous piece of paper inscribed with cryptic runes. Dunning soon discovers that Karswell uses these inscriptions to inflict a fatal, year-long curse on his critics. As the supernatural threat intensifies--manifesting as a grotesque, hairy fiend--Dunning must race against time and cold logic to understand the mechanism of the curse and find a way to return the deadly missive to its sender before his final hour arrives. From the mind of M. R. James, the acknowledged master who redefined the ghost story for the 20th century and founded the 'antiquarian ghost story' genre, comes one of his most famous and terrifying tales of deliberate malice. This story is a quintessential example of James' genius for combining scholarly investigation with palpable, creeping dread. It is essential reading for fans of classic ghost stories and supernatural fiction, proving that some reviews come at a terrifying price.

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Montague Rhodes James (1862 - 1936), who published under the name M. R. James, was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905-18) and of Eton College (1918-36). Though James's work as a medievalist is still highly regarded, he is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre. James redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. However, James's protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story".

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Fantasy and Horror Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1447405277
• ISBN 13: 9781447405276
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 42
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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