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— Oscar Wilde
A Warning To The Curious and other Ghost Stories.
London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1925. [Strange Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.200. Publisher's tan cloth, with brown titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. Internally clean, no inscriptions, text block a little sprung/proud at fore-edge, cloth mostly clean with a few light marks at rear, frayed at joints. Very good. Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was a medieval scholar and Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and later of Eton School. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions. Item #73256
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