More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

M. R. James

Horror Ghosts Gothic Horror Psychological Horror Collection Short Stories

The follow-up volume to "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" collects seven more of Montague Rhodes James's classic horror stories, including "A School Story," "The Rose Garden," "Casting the Runes," and "Martin's Close."

"...gifted with an almost diabolic power of calling horror by gentle steps from the midst of prosaic daily life, is the scholarly Montague Rhodes James, Provost of Eton College, antiquary of note, and recognized authority on mediæval manuscripts and cathedral history. Dr. James, long fond of telling spectral tales at Christmastide, has become by slow degrees a literary weird fictionist of the very first rank!" – H.P. Lovecraft

Contents:

  • A School Story
  • Casting the Runes
  • Martin's Close
  • Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance
  • The Rose Garden
  • The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
  • The Tractate Middoth
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1911
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M. R. James

Montague Rhodes James, OM, MA, (1862–1936), who used the publication name M. R. James, was a noted British mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918) and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature. One of James' most important achievements was to redefine the ghost story for the new century by dispensing with many of the formal gothic trappings of his predecessors, and replacing them with more realistic contemporary settings. H. P. Lovecraft was an admirer of James's work, extolling the stories as the peak of the…