Collected Ghost Stories
By: M.R. James ; edited with an introduction and notes by Darryl Jones
Contributors: Jones, Darryl, 1967-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780199568840
Subjects: English Ghost stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, James's stories draw on the terrors of the everyday. Documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and night-time settings where imagination runs riot.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-468).
Table of contents: title: Canon Alberic's scrap-book; title: Lost hearts; title: The mezzotint; title: The ash-tree; title: Number 13; title: Count Magnus; title: "Oh, whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad"; title: The treasure of Abbot Thomas; title: A school story; title: The rose garden; title: The tractate middoth; title: Casting the runes; title: The stalls of Barchester Cathedral; title: Martin's close; title: Mr. Humphreys and his inheritance; title: The residence at Whitminister; title: The diary of Mr. Poynter; title: An episode of cathedral history; title: The story of a disappearance and an appearance; title: Two doctors; title: The haunted dolls' house; title: The uncommon prayer-book; title: A neighbour's landmark; title: A view from a hill; title: A warning to the curious; title: An evening's entertainment; title: There was a man dwelt by a churchyard; title: Rats; title: After dark in the playing fields; title: Wailing well; title: The experiment; title: The malice of inanimate objects; title: A vignette; title: Appendix: M.R. James on ghost stories.