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  2. The 25 Best Ghost Books That Will Keep You Up All Night - AOL

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    The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story. Susan Hill's classic ghost story, The Woman in Black, is a gothic novel about Arthur Kipps, a London lawyer who is summoned to the funeral of Alice Drablow, a ...

  3. The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James - Wikipedia

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    Commenting on the 2011 edition of the collection, a starred review from Publishers Weekly stated that James "laid the foundations of the modern ghost story with the 33 well-wrought antiquarian tales collected here...James emphasized atmosphere and mood over shock tactics, but he always insisted that ghosts be malevolent and found very ...

  4. Ghost story - Wikipedia

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    The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story. New York: Routledge, 2018. O'Brian, Helen Conrad, and Julie Anne Stevens, ed. The Ghost Story from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century: A Ghostly Genre. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010. Briggs, Julia, Night Visitors: The Rise and Fall of the English Ghost Story. London: Faber, 1977.

  5. M. R. James - Wikipedia

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    James originally read the stories to friends and select students at Eton and Cambridge as Christmas Eve entertainments, and received wider attention when they were published in the collections Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919), A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost ...

  6. The Middle Toe of the Right Foot - Wikipedia

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    A man named Manton has horribly killed his two children and his wife, the latter of whom lacked the middle toe of the right foot. Ten years later he returns much altered to the neighborhood; and, being secretly recognized, is provoked into a bowie-knife duel in the dark, to be held in the now-abandoned house where his crime was committed.

  7. Last summer’s “The Daughter of Doctor Moreau” nodded at H.G. Wells’ classic horror story and subsequent films while telling a female-centered tale of Mexico’s fraught colonial past.

  8. A Warning to the Curious - Wikipedia

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    A dramatized narration of the story with Sir Christopher Lee as James was produced by BBC Scotland in 2000 as part of the series Christopher Lee's Ghost Stories For Christmas, adapted by Ronald Frame. [7] In 2020, the story was adapted by Shadows at the Door: The Podcast into a full-cast audio drama. In this adaptation, Paxton's gender was ...

  9. 46 of the greatest ghost movies of all time - AOL

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    Guillermo Del Toro returns with another kind of ghost story, this one a classic Gothic romance about con artist siblings (Tom Hiddleston and Jessica Chastain) who start out trying to steal Edith's ...