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Ghost Stories of M. R. James

M. R. James

First published 1994
Publisher Godfrey Cave / Penguin
Format Paperback
Type Collection
Pages 362
ISBN 0140621032

30 stories & 2 essays

  • Data from Internet Archive scan
  • "This collection first published by Edward Arnold 1931" "Published in Penguin Popular Classics 1994"
  • First printing per number line
  • While cover is "Ghost Stories", title page is "Ghost Stories of M. R. James"
  • "This cover shows a detail from an original mid-nineteenth century French watercolor by an unknown artist" per back cover
  • No price on book
  • Last page is unnumbered
  • "Complete and Unabridged" per rear cover
  • "Thirty-one classic ghost stories..." per rear cover, but this count includes the last essay. It is really 30 stories and 2 essays.

Searching by ISBN: 0140621032

Page Title Author(s) Type
5 Preface (The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James) M. R. James Essay
11 Canon Alberic's Scrapbook M. R. James Short Story
21 Lost Hearts M. R. James Short Story
30 The Mezzotint M. R. James Short Story
40 The Ash-Tree M. R. James Short Story
51 Number 13 M. R. James Short Story
64 Count Magnus M. R. James Short Story
75 "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" M. R. James Novelette
92 The Treasure of Abbot Thomas M. R. James Short Story
108 A School Story M. R. James Short Story
114 The Rose Garden M. R. James Short Story
124 The Tractate Middoth M. R. James Short Story
138 Casting the Runes M. R. James Novelette
156 The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral M. R. James Short Story
168 Martin's Close M. R. James Short Story
184 Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance M. R. James Novelette
206 The Residence at Whitminster M. R. James Novelette
225 The Diary of Mr Poynter M. R. James Short Story
234 An Episode of Cathedral History M. R. James Short Story
248 The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance M. R. James Short Story
259 Two Doctors M. R. James Short Story
266 The Haunted Dolls' House M. R. James Short Story
276 The Uncommon Prayer-Book M. R. James Short Story
289 A Neighbour's Landmark M. R. James Short Story
299 A View from a Hill M. R. James Short Story
314 A Warning to the Curious M. R. James Short Story
328 An Evening's Entertainment M. R. James Short Story
338 There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard M. R. James Short Story
341 Rats M. R. James Short Story
346 After Dark in the Playing Fields M. R. James Short Story
350 Wailing Well M. R. James Short Story
360 Stories I Have Tried to Write M. R. James Essay