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In the introduction to the story, M.R. James states that "old-fashioned books" often refer to grandmothers telling ghost stories to children by the fireside in the winter. Unfortunately, none of those books give any details of those stories. In "An Evening's Entertainment", M.R. James imagines a story which an old woman would tell her grandchildren to give them a "pleasing terror". The story is about two men who are followers of a pagan religion and about the strange occurrences that happen after their violent deaths.

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  • An Evening's Entertainment
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  • In the introduction to the story, M.R. James states that "old-fashioned books" often refer to grandmothers telling ghost stories to children by the fireside in the winter. Unfortunately, none of those books give any details of those stories. In "An Evening's Entertainment", M.R. James imagines a story which an old woman would tell her grandchildren to give them a "pleasing terror". The story is about two men who are followers of a pagan religion and about the strange occurrences that happen after their violent deaths.
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  • In the introduction to the story, M.R. James states that "old-fashioned books" often refer to grandmothers telling ghost stories to children by the fireside in the winter. Unfortunately, none of those books give any details of those stories. In "An Evening's Entertainment", M.R. James imagines a story which an old woman would tell her grandchildren to give them a "pleasing terror". The story is about two men who are followers of a pagan religion and about the strange occurrences that happen after their violent deaths. "An Evening's Entertainment" was adapted as an episode of the American radio series The Black Mass which first aired on the listener-funded stations KPFA (Berkley) and KPFK (Los Angeles) in 1964.
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