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The Anthology of Ghost Stories of M. R. James. Tales of horror and mystery : The Mezzotint, The Stalls of Barchester, The Ash Tree, Number 13, Count Magnus, A Warning to the Curious and others

The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James is an omnibus collection of ghost stories. Many of these stories are time-tested classics. Montague Rhodes James is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some consider among the best in the genre. He redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings.

However, his protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story".

H. P. Lovecraft was an admirer of James's work, extolling the stories as the peak of the ghost story form in his essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature".

A collection of stories:

Canon Alberic's Scrap-book

Lost Hearts

The Mezzotint

The Ash Tree

Number 13

Count Magnus

The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

A School Story

The Rose Garden

The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral

The Diary of Mr. Poynter

An Episode of Cathedral History

The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance

An Evening's Entertainment

A Warning to the Curious

A Neighbour's Landmark

The Uncommon Prayer-book

The Haunted Dolls' House

Wailing Well

There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard

Rats

After Dark in the Playing Fields

The Experiment: a New Year's Eve Ghost Story

The Malice of Inanimate Objects

A Vignette


Author:

  • M. R. James

Narrator:

  • Peter Coates

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 10 h 12 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Fiction
  • Short stories
  • Horror
  • Classic horror

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