The Unquiet Grave: Short Stories

by Peter Hawkins (Retold by), M.R. James

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Peter Hawkins.

If you find a locked room in a lonely inn, don't try to open it, even on a bright sunny day. If you find a strange whistle hidden among the stones of an old church, don't blow it. If a mysterious man gives you a piece of paper with strange writing on it, give it back to him at once. And if you call a dead man from his grave, don't expect to sleep peacefully ever again.

Read these five ghost stories by daylight, and make sure your door is locked.

Genres: Fantasy, Horror

91 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Bookweasel]

Atmospheric, gothic, and very creepy. Subject matter of strange creepy figures and ghosts screaming in your ear is what gets me.
These are classic gothic horror / ghost stories. Not violent, gory or vulgar (which I find cheap - not my kind of horror.)

[Fouli]

I had to read this for my English class many years ago. I don't really remember it anymore, but I remember I really liked it.

[Sreypich Van]

I was given this book as a gift. I didn't have any high expectation about it because I've read ones similar to this before. The stories were alright but they're not scary at all. The charcoal artworks in the book are really great but it didn't really help with the scared factor. My favorite story is the one called " Casting Runes". I think they are much more grotesque than the others. The rest was kinda boring and predictable.

[Andreia]

O inglês é excelente e tem um vocabulário espectacular mas não gostei mesmo nada da história em si. Admito que gostei do começo mas como depois começou a mudar de histórias achei um pouco foleiro e confuso.

[Auro Books]

It's a book from High School and it has been great re reading it! It contains 5 short stories about ghosts than, even though they are not amazing, it entertained me that it what matters!

[Monika Gi]

Loved this book, really liked the manner of writting. It contains 5 very short ghosts related stories - for light evening reading.

[Majed Mohammed]

Mik

[Maram]

Love oxford stories but i found these collection of short stories haven't a good ending for each one, although I enjoy it.

[Kazandra Escala]

Its a good short story; there’s just one particular story that i wanted to know more..

[Kosuke Kamiya]

1. Oxford level 4

2. 7/3=60min, 7/4=40min, 7/5=40min, 7/6=40min

3. horror, ghost, strange, five stories, grave,

4 a. Parkins was afraid that the moonlight might wake him up in the middle of the night, so he arranged a blanket and his umbrella to stop the moonlight shining on to his bed. However, an hour later, he was suddenly woken by a loud crash and he realized that bright shine was shining on his bed.

4 b I really was scared. When he found a strange whistle, the some unusual accidents happened to him. As the title wrote, the whistle invited ghosts to the owner. The ghost got into his room unless he locked his room. I finished reading at about midnight and so I tried to go to sleep, being frightened at ghosts.

5 there are many horror stories all over the world, but It is very different between Japan and other countries. It is very scared for me to listen to the horror stories whatever American or Japanese one. However this book told me that everyone in the world are frightened at same point.

[Tessei]

4/23 24min
4/24 10min
4/28 41min
4/29 20min
5/1 25 min
Total:120min
5/7 20min
5/8 15min
Total 155min

To page 55

7-words summary
Horror, curious, rumor, stories, frightened, death, sudden

impressive passage: i'm afraid to send people death.
why? because he, charactor who said, was a target of murder but he did to the murderer. However he just feel sorry about murderer. I think how good human being should be.

My opinion: I'm not finish reading this book so i'm going to finish reading the book first. however, I enjoy the book while I'm reading!

[R-kyuu]

This book is about 5 short ghost stories. I thought if the reader likes ghosts, then they will like this book. However personally I don't like ghosts so I thought the book was good itself, I didn't like the contents. Also, there is another problem. The book has been written in old English, (the character's quotes) and that also made it hard to understand it.

[Millie]

This book tells some strage stories,likes words are writing on one printing but when some one to look at it,the words are disappeared.Although it makes me feel a little amazing,it really boring.In fact,I don't like this book very much.

[Namiko]

It contains:

-The Picture
-Rats
-Casting the Runes
-The Experiment
-'Oh, Whistle, and I'll come to You, My Boy.'

[Constanza Bernal hurtado]

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[Leo Ps]

the unquiet grave

[Bao Ngoc Nguyen]

This is a nice mystery story.

[Josita]

I actually don’t remember what this was about.

[Jimmy Duy]

Quite good book for the one who loves mystery stories and wants to practice their reading skills.