Storytime VII – COUNT MAGNUS by M. R. James
M. R. James’s ghost stories are among the most effective ever written, modernizing an old concept for contemporary tastes without sacrificing the terror, sometimes reinventing it altogether. This is one of his darkest and most famous. On a side note, this and the other stories were written to be entertainments at Christmas, which has traditionally long been the proper occasion for such tales, as it has been believed that the boundary between this world and […]