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A forged papal seal, a country house with a very unwelcome guest, a stained-glass window that shows more than it should M.R. James returns with five more stories built on his signature trick: ordinary scholars and clergymen stumbling into something that was better left undisturbed. Nothing jumps out. Something worse happens it simply arrives, and won’t leave. James is credited with inventing the modern ghost story’s understated dread, and this collection shows the technique at its most refined: the horror is always in what he doesn’t describe.