Books Quote by M. R. James

“Quite by chance, her talk of ghosts comes on the very day the book I am in the middle of reading has completely disappeared,…

— Diane Setterfield

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th…

— Oliver Stone

“I tell you, my idea of a ghost is something quite different. Dead men rise up never – read even your poets. Ghosts breed…

— Leland Hall

“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

“Strange though it may seem, people rarely show such enthusiasm as when they are seeking the proof of a ghost story—the soul gathers all…

— Halldór Laxness

“So we're going ghosting. Our stories lie everywhere, just like our bones, more wild rides than you ever dreamt of, all the daring you…

— Marie Jakober

“... he said it felt like walking into another century, being there, looking up at the mullion windows, all darkened now, and the castellated…

— Justine Picardie

“The world of shadows and superstition that was Victorian England, so well depicted in this 1871 tale, was unique. While the foundations of so…

— Hugh Lamb

“Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence,…

— L.P. Hartley

“There are days when my imagination in my enemy. It likes to keep me company in my darkest of times and romanticizes a past…

— Alfa H

“I believe ghost story writing is a dying art.”

— H.R. Wakefield

“Create stories that will leave an everlasting impression even when you are not around to tell it”

— Marie Guillaume