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Quotes from Preface to More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary — M. R. James

1862–1936 England

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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 into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!"

Preface to More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911)

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