The draped effigy just behind him worried him again. He had been trying, at the back of his mind, behind the other thoughts, to...

'The beauty of the scene was strangely uplifting. Yet, ever at the back of his thoughts, lay that other aspect of the wilderness:...

'I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet'.
With its strange,...

Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888,...

Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the...

'The thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, rat-like, scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and...

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`They were removing the stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. And then,...

Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the...

`My eyes, perversely shaken open, gazed for an instant upon a sight which no human creature could even imagine without panic,...

M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre,...