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Doug Bradley's Spinechillers takes you into the world of classic short horror stories read by Hollywood horror icons.
Volume 9 launches with The Ash Tree, M. R. James' insight into an enigmatic woman and her rituals around this mysterious tree. A condemned man and over zealous executioners generate shocking results, in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Los Amigos Fiasco. An immoral wager leads to terror when the dead rise in Ambrose Bierce's A Watcher by the Dead. Lovecraft takes us exploring through a lost world of ancient evil in The Nameless City. M. Valdemar may be living longer than he bargained for in Edgar Allan Poe's The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar. H. P. Lovecraft returns with Jeff Combs at the reading helm in Herbert West: Reanimator, Part 2 - The Plague Daemon. And Edgar Allan Poe concludes Volume Nine with the classic poem Alone.
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About M. R. James
M. R. James (1862–1936) was an English medieval scholar and provost of King’s College, Cambridge and Eton College. He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which redefined the genre. He abandoned the many gothic clichés of his predecessors and opted for more realistic, contemporary settings. His characters and plots, however, reflected his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the “antiquarian ghost story.”