Collected Ghost Stories - A Collection of 22 M R James Stories

Collected Ghost Stories by M R James is a collection of twenty-two ghost stories plus a fascinating essay on the writing of ghost stories. Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a medieval scholar and Provost of Kings College Cambridge. His stories are classics of their genre understated beautifully paced and almost never explicit. Their idyllic rural backgrounds and amiable hero make the chilling terror of otherworldly intrusions all the more horrific. The collection is comprised of the following twenty-two stories: The Uncommon Prayer-Book; A Neighbours Landmark; Rats; The Experiment; The Malice Of Inanimate Objects; A Vignette; Canon Alberics Scrap-Book; The Stalls Of Barchester Cathedral; An Episode Of Cathedral History; The Story Of A Disappearance And An Appearance; The Haunted Dolls House; Lost Hearts; Mr. Humphreys And His Inheritance; Martins Close; The Diary Of Mr. Poynter; The Rose-Garden; Casting The Runes; A School Story; The Tractate Middoth; Two Doctors; A View From A Hill; The Residence At Whitminster; Appendix: M. R. James On Ghost Stories Note: This is not to be confused with the Book The Collected Ghost Stories of M R James which was published in 1931.