Collected Ghost Stories
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2011
368 pages
978-1-84870-397-1 (ISBN)
Description
M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement, convincing background and chilling terror.
As well as the preface, there is a fascinating tail-piece by M.R. James, 'Stories I Have Tried To Write', which accompanies these thirty tales. Among them are 'Casting the Runes', 'Oh, Whistle and I'll come to you, My Lad', 'The Tractate Middoth', 'The Ash Tree' and 'Canon Alberic's Scrapbook'
'There are some authors one wishes one had never read in order to have the joy of reading them for the first time. For me, M.R. James is one of these'. Ruth Rendell
Stories include:
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
There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
Rats
After Dark in the Playing Fields
Wailing Well
Stories I Have Tried to Write
As well as the preface, there is a fascinating tail-piece by M.R. James, 'Stories I Have Tried To Write', which accompanies these thirty tales. Among them are 'Casting the Runes', 'Oh, Whistle and I'll come to you, My Lad', 'The Tractate Middoth', 'The Ash Tree' and 'Canon Alberic's Scrapbook'
'There are some authors one wishes one had never read in order to have the joy of reading them for the first time. For me, M.R. James is one of these'. Ruth Rendell
Stories include:
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
There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
Rats
After Dark in the Playing Fields
Wailing Well
Stories I Have Tried to Write
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Language
English
Place of publication
Herts
United Kingdom
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
0,82 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84870-397-1 (9781848703971)
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Content
- Intro
- INTRODUCTION
- PREFACE
- 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
- There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
- Rats
- After Dark in the Playing Fields
- Wailing Well
- Stories I Have Tried to Write
