Download or read book Curious Warnings written by M.R. James and published by Jo Fletcher Books. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montague Rhodes James--M. R. James--was an English academic and provost of King's College and Eton. He started writing ghost stories to entertain his friends. . . one hundred and fifty years after his birth he is now revered as the father of the modern English ghost story. This gorgeous hardback collection contains all thirty-five of M.R. James's highly acclaimed ghost stories, including the classics: "Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" and "Canon Alberic's Scrapbook."