RARE collection of 25 chilling tales written in the tradition of the acknowledged master and originator of the "antiquarian ghost story" - M.R.James (1862-1936). The authors of the stories in this collection are: Sabine Baring Gould, A.C.Benson, R.H,Benson, Cecil Binney, Sir Andrew Caldecott, Ramsey Campbell. Patrick Carleton, John Dickson Carr, Frederick Cowles, Arthur Gray, Sheila Hodgson, A.F.Kidd, Shane Leslie, R.H.Malden, L.T.C.Rolt, David Rowlands, Eleanor Scott, Arnold Smith, Dermot Chesson Spence, Lewis Spence, Montague Summers, E.G.Swain. Contains b&w illustrations to some of the tales, and 20 b&w plates with some of the authors` photographs and illustrations of their novels. 240x155mm. 272 pages. 5 b&w full-page plates. Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Jacket edges/corners slightly wrinkled. Jacket rear upper edge and corner near spine wrinkled and tattered. Spine edges slightly bumped. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book of ghost stories in the tradition of M.R.James is in good condition.