The Damnations: M.R. James Short Stories

Authors: M.R. James & Ramsey CampbellClassic horror & ghost storiesPublished on 12th November 2024 by Flame Tree Publishing in the United Kingdom as part of the 'Special Ramsey Campbell Edition' series.Hardback | 256 pages 216mm x 140mm | 0g 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.