“Two ingredients most valuable in the concocting of a ghost story are the atmosphere and the nicely managed crescendo …Let us, then, be introduced to the actors in a placid way; let us see them going about their ordinary business,… — M. R. James Copy Share Image
A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something… — M. R. James Copy Share Image
Do I believe in ghosts?...I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me. — M. R. James Copy Share Image
“Two ingredients most valuable in the concocting of a ghost story are the atmosphere and the nicely managed crescendo …Let us, then, be introduced… — M. R. James Copy Share Image
A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will… — M. R. James Copy Share Image
Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence… — M. R. James Copy Share Image
Yes, I definitely prefer the daylight population of the playing fields to that which comes there after dark. — M. R. James Copy Share Image
I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to… — M. R. James Copy Share Image
