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".
Content:
- 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
- THE MALICE OF INANIMATE OBJECTS
- A VIGNETTE
