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Selected Ghost Stories

M. R. James

First published 1995
Publisher Senate
Format Trade Paperback
Type Collection
Cover art Caspar-David Friedrich
Pages 394
ISBN 185958134X

Originally published as: The collected ghost stories of M.R. James, Edward Arnold, 1931 [Worldcat]. Cover artist on back cover of Archive.org copy; cover art is titled "Abbey in the Oakwood". The copy uploaded to Archive.org in September of 2021 is missing the copyright page and the contents page; the title page is followed by a blank page and then the first story.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
"Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" M. R. James Novelette
A Neighbour's Landmark M. R. James Short Story
A School Story M. R. James Short Story
A View from a Hill M. R. James Short Story
A Warning to the Curious M. R. James Short Story
After Dark in the Playing Fields M. R. James Short Story
An Episode of Cathedral History M. R. James Short Story
An Evening's Entertainment M. R. James Short Story
Canon Alberic's Scrapbook M. R. James Short Story
Casting the Runes M. R. James Novelette
Count Magnus M. R. James Short Story
Introduction (Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James) uncredited Essay
Lost Hearts M. R. James Short Story
Martin's Close M. R. James Short Story
Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance M. R. James Novelette
Number 13 M. R. James Short Story
Preface (The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James) M. R. James Essay
Rats M. R. James Short Story
Stories I Have Tried to Write M. R. James Essay
The Ash-Tree M. R. James Short Story
The Diary of Mr. Poynter M. R. James Short Story
The Haunted Dolls' House M. R. James Short Story
The Mezzotint M. R. James Short Story
The Residence at Whitminster M. R. James Novelette
The Rose Garden M. R. James Short Story
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral M. R. James Short Story
The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance M. R. James Short Story
The Tractate Middoth M. R. James Short Story
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas M. R. James Short Story
The Uncommon Prayer-Book M. R. James Short Story
There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard M. R. James Short Story
Two Doctors M. R. James Short Story
Wailing Well M. R. James Short Story