Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.
If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting … - M. R. James
If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting …
- M. R. James
I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again. - M. R. James
I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again.
Do I believe in ghosts?...I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me. - M. R. James
Do I believe in ghosts?...I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me.
Yes, I definitely prefer the daylight population of the playing fields to that which comes there after dark. - M. R. James
Yes, I definitely prefer the daylight population of the playing fields to that which comes there after dark.
Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatan… - M. R. James
Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatan…
A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader… - M. R. James
A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader…
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