Der Autor schafft es wirklich, unheimliche Stimmungen in seinen Geschichten zu erzeugen und aufrecht zu halten.

I think the reader can easily tell how much love and care James put in the writing of these stories. The second short story collection by Montague Rhodes James, following Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. As a fan of the originals (I love classic genre fiction and horror in particular) and of only the best graphic novels (as an artist myself I’m very fussy about artwork) I couldn’t resist trying this but was expecting it to have some aspects that I fundamentally disliked.

He has found them quite enjoyable, They are well illustrated, in graphic novel style, but do capture the spirit and feel of the stories. He has written articles for the likes of Fortean Times, Strange Attractor Journal, Darklore, and Paranormal Magazine, and is a contributing editor for The Daily Grail online.

A Cambridge scholar himself, James explored what happens when academics dabble in things they don’t understand and unleash forces of which they know nothing. Featuring eight tales: 'Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book'; 'Lost Hearts'; 'The Mezzotint'; 'The Ash-Tree'; 'Number 13'; 'Count Magnus'; 'Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad', and 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas'. That’s not a matter for complaint, but I can’t help thinking it would have been nice to have the same voice reading all eight of the Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. His narrators are academic, but acquired knowledge proves to be no protection against the inexplicable or the unknown. One of the most famous compilations of ghost stories of all time, “generally taken to mark the beginning of the modern era of supernatural fiction.He's best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature. I found myself thinking of both Lovecraft (in James’ use of made-up manuscripts and a reliance on protagonists of a learned bent whose curiosity proves to be their bane) and Clark Ashton-Smith (though with prose that was a little less flowery) though I think James is a much better stylist than the former and a little less given to the more extreme flights of fancy of the latter.

His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. In Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to you, My Lad, the object is an ancient bronze whistle that terrifies Professor Parkins to near insanity. The powerful sense of evil – darkness, creepy hairy presences, cloaks, hoods, talons and tentacles – pervades these classic ghost stories by M. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary was James' first collection of macabre stories, cited as marking 'the beginning of the modern era of supernatural fiction.We give our best to give you the best book but in some cases we have to adjust few pages which are blur or missing or black spots. Every time anyone looks at it, something has subtly changed – is it imagination or the supernatural? I covered yards of paper to put in the moon shadows correctly and it is certainly the best thing I have ever drawn". This volume was followed, in 1911, by More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, containing a further seven stories on similar themes. This edition reprints for the first time in recent years the four original illustrations that James McBride prepared while James was working on this, his first collection.