- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: British Library (Jan 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0712311254
- ISBN-13: 978-0712311250
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.7 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 603 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,259,585 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This collection offers some of the best stories from authors who influenced James, such as Sheridan Le Fanu and Augustus Jessopp, stories from his contemporaries, such as T.G. Jackson and "D.N.J.", and tales from more recent practitioners, including Fritz Leiber and Terry Lamsley. The collection also includes a checklist of writers in the Jamesian tradition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Indispensable for those who love ghost stories,
By A Customer
This review is from: Meddling with Ghosts: Stories in the Tradition of M.R. James (Hardcover)
This book is well worth the purchase price, both for the first-rate stories it contains and for the extensive, annotated bibliography it includes. The stories give a comprehensive overview of the "Jamesian" ghost story, and Campbell's brief notes before each are interesting and will be helpful to those who wish to read more by the authors. The bibliography that concludes "Meddling With Ghosts" would justify the book's purchase all by itself: it includes enough authors (many not well-known), and enough explanatory notes about the works of each, to keep the ghost story aficianado busy for years. Not a book for those whose main interest is explicit, gory horror, but anyone who enjoys classic ghost stories whose terror is more subtle and disturbing will love this book and return to it again and again.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A spiritually transcendent literary journey,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Meddling with Ghosts: Stories in the Tradition of M.R. James (Hardcover)
Knowledgeably compiled and ably edited by Ramsey Campbell, Meddling With Ghosts is an outstanding anthology of memorable short stories by a variety of talented authors, all of whom deliberately offer sumptuous and bone-chilling tales of supernatural horror in the literary tradition of M. R. James. From J. Sheridan Le Fanu's "The Familiar" (1872) to Terry Lamsley's "Two Returns" (1993), this compendium of spooky tales set in bygone decades ranges from the 1870's to the 1990's and make Meddling With Ghosts a spiritually transcendent literary journey through time as well as through the occult planes of the mind-chilling, spine-tingling unknown.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Big on literary history, small on horror,
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This review is from: Meddling with Ghosts: Stories in the Tradition of M.R. James (Hardcover)
Campbell's collection is unique. He attempts to -- and does -- capture the the aura of M.R. James' horror work. He has collected pieces from before James, contemporary to James, and since James. Most of them are entertaining and well-written, but they do inspire terror in the reader. If you are looking for a collection of quaint ghost stories, you have found it. If you are looking for horror, look elsewhere.
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