The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James

M. R. James

Horror Short Stories
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Contents:

  • Canon Alberic's Scrapbook
  • Lost Hearts
  • The Mezzotint
  • The Ash Tree
  • Number 13
  • Count Magnus
  • Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad
  • The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
  • A School Story
  • The Rose Garden
  • The Tractate Middoth
  • Casting the Runes
  • The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
  • Martin's Close
  • Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance
  • The Residence at Whitminster
  • The Diary of Mr Poynter
  • An Episode of Cathedral History
  • The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance
  • Two Doctors
  • The Haunted Dolls' House
  • The Uncommon Prayer-Book
  • A Neighbour's Landmark
  • A View from a Hill
  • A Warning to the Curious
  • An Evening's Entertainment
  • Wailing Well
  • There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
  • Rats
  • After Dark in the Playing Fields

Note! The three stories not collected in this volume are:

  • The Experiment
  • The Malice of Inanimate Objects
  • A Vignette
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Published
1931
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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…