Quote#Kindness
A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth…
Quote byM. R. James · 1862–1936
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Preface to More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911); cited from Michael Cox (ed.) Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) pp. 337-8..
English (original)
A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!"
— M. R. James
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