Ghost Stories of an Antiquary some are of uncommon difficulty

some are of uncommon difficulty and will challenge the ingenuity of any research mathematician

Andrew Lloyd Webber

" and the author's much-imitated masterpiece

1893 edition

It begins in Galileo's youth

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary some are of uncommon difficultyIn the twentieth century literature of the supernatural, the single most important book, in the opinion of most scholars and enthusiasts, is Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, by Montague Rhodes James. First printed in 1904, it is the landmark book that established the modern horror story. It has been reprinted more times than any other book in this field, and it contains several of the best ghost stories in the English language. The antiquary here is M.