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The Unquiet Grave

This book has a series of stories in it like Rats, Casting Runes, The Picture, The Experiment, ‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll come to You, My Boy. For this article we are going to concentrate in the story of Casting Runes, this story is about a man called Mr. Karswell whom does not take kindly criticism. When Mr. Harrington, a publisher from a newspaper, writes a bad review of his book History of Witchcraft, he dies in very odd circumstances.   Now that Mr. Dunning has given his expert opinion on a paper Mr. Karswell wishes to give, strange things begin to happen to him. Mr. Harrington’s brother tells Mr. Dunning he has reason to fear for his life. Clearly, Mr. Karswell has cast runes on Mr. Dunning in order to harm him. There is now a race against time to reverse the spell. They are successful but Mr. Karswell pays a heavy penalty: the runes are turned on him and he dies mysteriously in France. 

It really is an interesting piece of work. Because, not only in this story the author focuses in in getting the audience frighten and involved in the story. He as well gets the whole picture of the story not letting any detail out of his hands. The writer of this frightening stories is M. R. James or Montague Rhodes James was an English author, born in Kent, England in 1862, the son of a clergyman. The family lived at the Rectory in Great Livermore. He was a medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge, and of Eton College. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.  He was interested in all things antiquarian, and medieval. It fed into his ghost stories, which he would read to his fellow dons on Christmas Eve. In many ways, his ghost stories represent a step backwards in the evolution of the ghost story.

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• https://www.enotes.com/topics/m-r-james
• http://www.englishcenter.dk/Files/Billeder/PDF/pdfoxford/Oxford%20Bookworms/newobwunquietwork.pdf