Casting the Runes (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

M. R. James was a prolific and hugely successful author, now credited with having redefined the ghost story for the 20th century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. ''Casting the Runes'' is one of his most famous tales, and was adapted into a film in 1958. Many of the earliest occult stories, particularly those dating ...