The Locked Room and Other Horror Stories - Level 4- Penguin Readers, level 4 (hasło 123)
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The Locked Room
and
Other Horror Stories
M.R. James
Louise Greenwood and Carolyn Jones
drew the pictures
Level 4
Retold by Piers Sandford
Series Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter
Pearson Education Limited
Edinburgh Gate, Harlow,
Essex CM20 2JE, England
and Associated Companies throughout the world.
ISBN 0 582 41807 0
‘The Ash-Tree’, ‘A School Story’, The Diary of Mr Poynter’
(“The Curtains’), ‘An Evening’s Entertainment’ (The Flies’), ‘Rats’
(‘The Locked Room’), ‘The Mezzotint’ (‘The Painting of—ngley Hall’), ‘Lost Hearts’,
‘Martin’s Close’ (‘Martin’s Lake’). and The Tractate Middoth’ (‘The Two Cousins’).
first published by Edward Arnold 1931
The adaptation
first published by Penguin Books 1993
Published by Addison Wesley Longman Limited and Penguin Books Ltd. 1998
New edition first published 1999
Second impression 2000
Text copyright ©
Louise Greenwood and Carolyn Jones 1993
Illustrations copyright © Piers Sandford 1993
All right reserved
The moral right of the adapters and of the illustrator has been asserted
Typeset by Digital Type, London
Set in 11/14pt Bembo
Printed in Spain by Mateu Cromo, S.A. Pinto {Madrid)
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Contents
page
Introduction v
Chapter 1 The Ash-Tree 1
Chapter 2 A School Story 8
Chapter 3 The Curtains 13
Chapter 4 The Flies 18
Chapter 5 The Locked Room 22
Chapter 6 The Painting of —ngley Hall 28
Chapter 7 Lost Hearts 34
Chapter 8 Martin’s Lake 42
Chapter 9 The Two Cousins 46
Activities 55
Introduction
He jumped and screamed and, as he did, the face of the thing came up
towards him: no eyes, no nose, no mouth. He screamed again and
rushed to the door. He felt the thing touch his back and start to tear
at his shirt...
Things
... things in the night, things in the house, screaming,
running, staring ... In these stories there are things that are worse
than your worst dreams.
Giant black spiders living in a tree. The terrible ghost that
waits outside a window. Empty clothes that walk. The strange
thin woman who moves through a man’s picture. The boy with
the long, dirty fingernails
-
and a hole in his chest. The woman
who screams from the bottom of a lake. And the dry dusty old
man who reads - but has no eyes!
Here are nine stories like no others you have read.
Montague Rhodes James was born in 1862 in a village in Kent,
in the south of England, where his father was a vicar. From an
early age. he loved old books and studied history, the Bible,
languages and the books of past centuries at Cambridge
University. He studied, lived and worked at the University from
1882 to 1918.
He began to write ghost and horror stories after reading the
stories of Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu. From the early 1890s, he
read one of his own stories to friends at Christmas every year. His
great knowledge of history gave his stories an unusual amount of
detail and his ghosts seem more real, and are more frightening,
than those of almost any other writer.
M. R. James died in 1936.
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