M. R. James's classic ghost stories are some of the finest in English, creating menace and terror in lonely country houses and remote inns. This is the only one-volume edition to include all James's published stories, an appendix of James's writings on the ghost story, and a critical introduction and notes.

• Introduction


• Select Bibliography


• Chronology of M. R. James


• Canon Alberic's Scrap-book


• Lost Hearts


• The Mezzotint


• The Ash-Tree


• Number 13


• Count Magnus


• 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll 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


• The Experiment


• The Malice of Inanimate Objects


• A Vignette


• Appendix: M. R. James on Ghost Stories


• Explanatory Notes

Darryl Jones's other publications include Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film (London: Arnold; New York: OUP, 2002), Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson (OUP, 2014) and, forthcoming for OUP, Arthur Conan Doyle's Gothic Tales.