M.R. JAMES

House in the picture and abbot thomas' treasure editado por Heinemann

The house in the picture and abbot editado por Macmillan

The unquiet grave editado por Oxford

The crown editado por Penguin

Antiquarian Paxton travels to a small town on the coast of Norfolk and learns of a legend concerning three crowns buried on the coast thousands of years ago to protect the land against marauding Vikings. Paxton tries to find the remaining crown, unaware of the supernatural presence that protects it.

The second volume of the only annotated edition of M. R. James's complete writings currently available, this book brings together tales from James's final two volumes, A Thin Ghost and Others and A Warning to the Curious. I n these stories, James continues his transformation of the ghost story from its nineteenth-century heritage.

Un paseante, que da señales de ser bastante sabio, recibe susurros y murmullos de un arroyo que le llevan a desenterrar una extraña caja. Allí encuentra envueltos cinco frascos que contienen ungüentos con efectos mágicos. Cada vez que los usa le dan poderes especiales, y en principio benéficos, para entender, por ejemplo, las extrañas conversaci...