R James: 1068 books

Book cover of Box Set - The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volumes 1 to 7 (100+ authors & 200+ stories)
by Leonid Andreyev, Cynthia Asquith, E. F. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This box set includes all the seven volumes of the collection.
Book cover of The Best Ghost Stories Ever Told
by Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Wilkie Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011

Tales of spooks and spirits that have taught generations of readers what it means to be afraid of the dark—by authors from H. G. Wells to Willa Cather.   Before movies, television, and teams of high-tech “ghost hunters” running around darkened houses, there was only one sure-fire way to scare...
Book cover of Richelieu

Richelieu

A Tale of France

by G. P. R. James
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

George Payne Rainsford James was a British writer who produced a remarkable number of historical novels and romances over the course of his thirty-year career. The sweeping epic Richelieu unfolds amidst the cultural tumult and political shifts of seventeenth-century France.
Book cover of More Ghost Stories

More Ghost Stories

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Part II

by M. R. James
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012

Author Montague Rhodes James was a medieval scholar by training, and he was interested in the oral storytelling tradition that prevailed before the printed word took hold and gained worldwide popularity. His ghost stories were written to be read aloud in a group setting, but even if you dare to read them all alone, you'll appreciate their subtlety, elegance and slow building of suspense.
Book cover of The Five Jars
by Montague R. James
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2018

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The Five Jars is the only novel written by James, who is best known for his ghost stories. It is a peculiarly surreal fantasy apparently written for children. While he is out walking, the narrator...
Book cover of Amiens 1918
by James McWilliams, R James Steel
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016

On 8 August 1918, the Allied forces launched the surprise attack that heralded the end of the First World War. With skill and daring, 21 divisions of men breached the German lines, supported by 500 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. This book considers the successes and failures of both sides in this conflict.
Book cover of The Man in Black: An Historical Novel of the Days of Queen Anne
by G.P.R. James
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018

Excerpt: "Let me take you into an old-fashioned country house, built by architects of the early reign of James the First. It had all the peculiarities--I might almost say the oddities--of that particular epoch in the building art. Chimneys innumerable had it. Heaven only knows what rooms they ventilated;...
Book cover of 3 books to know: Ghost Stories
by August Nemo, Charlotte Riddell, Vernon Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019

Welcome to the 3 Books To Know series, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great works to instigate...
Book cover of The Psychology of Marriage

The Psychology of Marriage

An Evolutionary and Cross-Cultural View

by Carol Cronin Weisfeld, Glenn E. Weisfeld, Lisa M. Dillon
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017

From their location in the heart of Detroit, Michigan, the Weisfelds’ lab has reached out for thirty years to couples in long-term partnerships around the world. In living rooms of Detroit, London, Moscow, Beijing, and beyond, couples of all types and ages have shared their insights into adult romantic...
Book cover of The Consolation Of Philosophy
by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius,H. R. James
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009

The book called 'The Consolation of Philosophy' was throughout the Middle Ages, and down to the beginnings of the modern epoch in the sixteenth century, the scholar's familiar companion. Few books have exercised a wider influence in their time. It has been translated into every European...
Book cover of A Thin Ghost and Others
by M. R. James
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010

Are you the type who loves nothing more than curling up with a book of ghost stories? If so, be sure to add A Thin Ghost and Others to your must-read list. A gem from the golden age of Gothic horror, these spine-tingling tales will satisfy your craving for ghoulishly top-notch fiction.
Book cover of Old Testament Legends

Old Testament Legends

Being Stories out of Some of the Less-Known Apocryphal Books of the Old Testament

by M. R. James
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017

Delve deeper into the fascinating nooks and crannies of biblical history with this engaging volume of tales from the Old Testament era. Ordered chronologically, some of the tales center on unfamiliar characters, while others provide new insight and details about well-known figures such as Adam and Eve.
Book cover of Darnley
by G.P.R. James
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018

A stranger rides across the Kentish countryside when his attention is called to a cottage where violence is being done to an elderly couple. The knight, for such he appears to be, rushes to their aid. Soon after, the strange and prophetic Sir Cesar appears on the scene and foretells of danger ahead.
Book cover of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
by M. R. James
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014

If anyone is curious about my local settings, let it be recorded that St. Bertrand de Comminges and Viborg are real places: that in 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You' I had Felixstowe in mind. As for the fragments of ostensible erudition which are scattered about my pages, hardly anything in them...
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