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The Diary of Mr. Poynter: A Ghost Story for Christmas

✍️ M R James
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🏛 Biblioasis 📅 2016 📖 84 pages 🌐 English 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9781771961257

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Seth's newly illustrated version of a classic Christmas Ghost Story by horror master M. R. James.

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M.R. James crafts a quietly unsettling narrative that centers on an antiquarian purchase yielding an unsettling illustrated diary and a creeping, bespoke terror. The atmosphere builds with deliberate, scholarly restraint, relying on slow realization rather than sudden shocks to evoke an eerie, uncanny dread. This classic tale suits readers who appreciate subtle, atmospheric ghost stories with a distinctly Victorian sensibility rather than explicit gore. It offers a measured, traditional shiver ideal for a quiet winter evening by the hearth.
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M.R. James crafts a quietly unsettling narrative that centers on an antiquarian purchase yielding an unsettling illustrated diary and a creeping, bespoke terror. The atmosphere builds with deliberate, scholarly restraint, relying on slow realization rather than sudden shocks to evoke an eerie, uncanny dread. This classic tale suits readers who appreciate subtle, atmospheric ghost stories with a distinctly Victorian sensibility rather than explicit gore. It offers a measured, traditional shiver ideal for a quiet winter evening by the hearth.

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