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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

by M. R. James

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First published: 1904
Pages: 117

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Preface to Vol. 1 and Canon Alberic
34:35
Lost Hearts
27:08
The Mezzotint
30:59
The Ash-Tree
35:07
Number 13
40:12
Count Magnus
36:57
Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad
49:52
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
50:01
Preface to Vol. 2 and A School Story
18:50
The Rose Garden
28:49
The Tractate Middoth
43:05
Casting the Runes
53:52
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
40:12
Martin’s Close
49:06
Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance – Part One
29:27
Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance – Part Two
38:27

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About this book

M. R. James, a Cambridge medievalist by profession, more or less perfected the English ghost story in this first collection of eight tales. His method rarely varies and never tires: a quiet scholar poking through an old library, cathedral, or seaside town disturbs something that should have been left alone, and the horror arrives slowly, through half-glimpsed shapes and a mounting sense of wrongness. "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" and "Count Magnus" rank among the most anthologized ghost stories in the language. James first read the tales aloud to friends at Christmas, and they keep that fireside intimacy, all the more unsettling for how reasonable his narrators sound.

About the author

M. R. James

M. R. James spent his working life inside two institutions, as provost of King's College Cambridge from 1905 and then as provost of Eton from 1918 until his death, and his profession was cataloguing medieval manuscripts, a job he did so thoroughly that the catalogues are still consulted.