The Damnations: M.R. James Short Stories - M.r. James - Hardback Bog - Flame Tree Publishing - 2024 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

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Special, collectable hardcover edition for Ramsey Campbell''s 60 years in publication. With his subtle sense of dread and use modern settings, M.R. James'' ghost stories formed a firm foundation for the modern horror story with his presence felt in all forms of literature and media. This special collectable edition of short stories features a new introduction by the greatest current inheritor of the Jamesian mantle, Ramsey Campbell, along with one of Ramsey''s own tales. The Ramsey Campbell Special Editions . Campbell is the greatest inheritor of a tradition that reaches back through H.P. Lovecraft and M.R. James to Mary Shelley''s Frankenstein and the early Gothic writers. The dark, masterful work of the painter Henry Fuseli, a friend of Mary Wollstonecraft, is used on these special editions to invoke early literary investigations into the supernatural.