M. R. James's classic ghost stories are some of the finest in English, creating menace and terror in lonely country houses and remote inns. This is the only one-volume edition to include all James's published stories, an appendix of James's writings on the ghost story, and a critical introduction and notes.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- Select Bibliography
- Chronology of M. R. James
- 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 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
- 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
- Explanatory Notes
