More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Paperback/M. R. James

Montague Rhodes James wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions.