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The Haunted Dolls' House
"The Haunted Dolls' House" (1923) is a short story by M. R. James, collected by him in ''A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories'' (1925). It was commissioned by Queen Mary, wife of George V, as a miniature book for her famous Dolls' House, which can still be seen in Windsor Castle. It is in many ways a typical James story, thematically linked to other works of his, especially "The Mezzotint". Though usually considered a story for adults, it has also been claimed as children's fiction. Synopsis The story opens in the middle of a conversation between the antique dealer Mr Chittenden and his potential customer Mr Dillet. They discuss a collector's item in Chittenden's stock and haggle over it; a price is agreed, the sale is made, and Dillet leaves. Chittenden's wife comments that she is glad the thing has gone, and gone to that customer. Dillet has his purchase carefully driven home then unpacks it and examines it in detail. It is a dolls' house in Strawberry Hil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Warning To The Curious And Other Ghost Stories
''A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories'' is the title of M. R. James' fourth and final collection of ghost stories, published in 1925. Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was a medievalist scholar; Provost of King's College, Cambridge. 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. Contents of the original edition * " The Haunted Dolls' House" * "The Uncommon Prayer-Book" * "A Neighbour's Landmark" * "A View from a Hill" * "A Warning to the Curious "A Warning to the Curious" is a ghost story by British writer M. R. James, included in his book '' A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories'' first published in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Collection
The Royal Collection of the British royal family is the largest private art collection in the world. Spread among 13 occupied and historic royal residences in the United Kingdom, the collection is owned by King Charles III and overseen by the Royal Collection Trust. The British monarch owns some of the collection in right of the Crown and some as a private individual. It is made up of over one million objects, including 7,000 paintings, over 150,000 works on paper, this including 30,000 watercolours and drawings, and about 450,000 photographs, as well as around 700,000 works of art, including tapestries, furniture, ceramics, textiles, carriages, weapons, armour, jewellery, clocks, musical instruments, tableware, plants, manuscripts, books, and sculptures. Some of the buildings which house the collection, such as Hampton Court Palace, are open to the public and not lived in by the Royal Family, whilst others, such as Windsor Castle and Kensington Palace, are both residences an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Project Gutenberg Canada
Project Gutenberg Canada, also known as Project Gutenburg of Canada, is a Canadian digital library founded July 1, 2007 by Dr. Mark Akrigg. The website allows Canadian residents to create e-texts and download books, including those that are otherwise not in the public domain in other countries. It is not formally affiliated with the original Project Gutenberg, though both share the common objective of making public domain books available for free to the general public as e-books. Project Gutenburg Canada primarily focuses on works by Canadian authors or about Canada, as well as works in Canadian French. Distributed Proofreaders Canada began contributing ebooks to Project Gutenberg Canada when launched on December 1, 2007. Canadian public domain In Canada, the copyright period for works is 50 years after the year the author has died. Therefore, if the book was published during the author's lifetime and the author died 51 years ago or more, the book is in the Canadian public dom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Litt
Toby Litt is an English writer and academic in the Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. Life Litt was born in Ampthill in 1968. He was educated at Bedford Modern School, read English at Worcester College, Oxford and studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia where he was taught by Malcolm Bradbury. A short story by Toby Litt was included in the anthology ''All Hail the New Puritans'' (2000), edited by Matt Thorne and Nicholas Blincoe, and he has edited ''The Outcry'' (2001), Henry James's last completed novel, for Penguin in the UK. In 2003 he was nominated by Granta magazine as one of the 20 'Best of Young British Novelists', although his work since then has met with mixed reviews, one reviewer in the Guardian writing that his novel ''I Play the Drums in a Band Called Okay'' "goes on ... and on, and on. There is plenty of story here, but little plot, and no tension." He edited the 13th edition of ''New Writing'' (the British Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Vignette
"A Vignette" is a ghost story written in 1935 by the British author and academic M. R. James. At just over 2,000 words, it is the shortest of his stories and was the last he wrote.Musson, JeremyHow M.R. James wove country house architecture into his ghost stories ''Country Life (magazine), Country Life'', 30 December 2021 It is an unusually autobiographical story that seems to be based on an incident in James’s early life in Great LivermereScovell, AdamAnalogue Ambles: M. R. James’ haunted childhood home Caught by the River website, 31 October 2019 when, it is said, he had an experience in a haunted Plantation. "A Vignette" was first published in November 1936 in the literary journal ''The London Mercury'' five months after his death.'A Vignette.' ''The London Mercury And Bookman'', Vol. XXXV No. 205, November, 1936, pp. 18–22 Synopsis The story begins with the garden of a country rectory, the childhood home of the narrator, which is next to a large park separated from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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