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Collected ghost stories / M. R. James.

By: James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862-1936.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Wordsworth classics: Publisher: Ware : Wordsworth Editions, 1992 1995Description: 352 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 1853260533 .Subject(s): Ghost storiesDDC classification: 823.8
Contents:
Canon Alberic's Scrapbook -- Lost Hearts -- The Mezzotint -- The Ash Tree -- Number 13 -- Count Magnus -- 'Oh, Whistle, and I'II 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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Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 823.8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00018104
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The tail piece Stories I have tried to write accompanies 30 classic tales of their genre set against convincing backgrounds to afflict chilling terror on the reader.

Canon Alberic's Scrapbook -- Lost Hearts -- The Mezzotint -- The Ash Tree -- Number 13 -- Count Magnus -- 'Oh, Whistle, and I'II 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.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

M. R. James was born in Goodnestone, Kent, England on August 1, 1862. He was an English mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905-1918) and of Eton College (1918-1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature.

He began writing his ghost stories as an entertainment for his friends; he would read these stories each year at Christmas to his colleagues at King's College. The earliest of these tales include Canon Alberic's Scrap-book and Lost Hearts, both of which were later collected in his first anthology of supernatural fiction, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904). Perhaps his single greatest story is the profoundly disturbing Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad (1904). He died on June 12, 1936.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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