Project Gutenberg 2021-12-04 Public domain in the USA. 430 James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes) 1862 1936 James, M.R. James, Montague Rhodes 86170144 A Warning to the Curious, and Other Ghost Stories Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Warning_to_the_Curious_and_Other_Ghost_Stories The haunted doll's house -- The uncommon prayer-book -- A neighbor's landmark -- A view from a hill -- A warning to the curious -- An evening's entertainment. Emmanuel Ackerman, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.) "A Warning to the Curious, and Other Ghost Stories" by M. R. James is a collection of supernatural short stories written in the early 20th century. This anthology follows various protagonists destined to confront eerie and unsettling events related to antiquities and the past, as they encounter remnants of histories that refuse to fade quietly into obscurity. The opening of the collection presents the story "The Haunted Doll’s House." It introduces Mr. Dillet, a collector who acquires an ornate dollhouse with a mysterious past. Upon bringing it home, he experiences a supernatural phenomenon that merges his reality with unsettling, ghostly visions of the dollhouse's previous inhabitants. As he unravels the history connected to the house, the narrative unfolds layers of horror and tension that hints at dark secrets and unresolved tales, setting the tone for the chilling ghost stories to follow in this intriguing anthology. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 84.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Short stories, English Ghost stories, English English fiction -- 20th century PR Text Category: Short Stories Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: British Literature 241494 2025-07-26T11:25:57.183662 text/html 226691 2024-10-18T17:32:35 text/html 403940 2025-07-26T11:26:01.387594 application/epub+zip 401634 2025-07-26T11:25:58.036700 application/epub+zip 207376 2025-07-26T11:25:57.623627 application/epub+zip 467670 2025-07-26T11:26:04.237644 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 445011 2025-07-26T11:26:00.930658 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 252118 2022-09-30T05:20:31.913083 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 217135 2025-07-26T11:25:56.859665 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 197113 2024-10-18T17:32:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17248 2025-07-26T11:26:04.381674 application/rdf+xml 14052 2025-07-26T11:25:57.746616 image/jpeg 1862 2025-07-26T11:25:57.683677 image/jpeg 395938 2025-07-26T11:25:57.217621 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia