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Violence
Barely any
Horror and supernatural menace; no graphic violence
Language
None
Edwardian English; clean
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Sustained supernatural dread; psychological horror through implication
What this book is about
James's complete ghost stories — written over four decades in the early 20th century — are the gold standard of the British ghost tale. Quiet, scholarly, meticulously detailed, and then suddenly, terrifyingly wrong. James invented the template: an antiquarian encounters some ancient object or text, and something old and hungry follows him home.
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Supernatural horror (classic ghost stories)
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