Collected ghost stories

James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862-1936, author.

Book 2017

I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own ... ' Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M.R. James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton and Cambridge. His classic supernatural tales draw on the terrors of the everyday, in which documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and night-time...

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ISBN:

9780198797364
0198797362

Description:

xxxvi, 468 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Short stories. Selections

Notes:

First published 2011 ; Reissued 2017
Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-468)

Contents:

Canon Alberic's scrap-book
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 Whitminister
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
There was a man dwelt by a churchyard
Rats
After dark in the playing fields
Wailing well
The experiment
The malice of inanimate objects
A vignette
Appendix: M.R. James on ghost stories

Control Number:

2217261

Other Authors:

Jones, Darryl, 1967- editor, contributor

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