| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 |
|
More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary | Edward Arnold | Collection | 1 |
| 1931 |
|
The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James | Edward Arnold | Collection | 180 |
| 1931 |
|
The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James | Longmans, Green and Co. | Collection | 180 |
| 1937 |
|
The Evening Standard Second Book of Strange Stories | Hutchinson | Anthology | 497 |
| 1944 |
|
Selected Ghost Stories of M. R. James | Editions for the Armed Services | Collection | |13 |
| 1944 | The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James | Edward Arnold | Collection | 180 | |
| March 1944 |
|
Best Ghost Stories of M. R. James | World Publishing Co. | Collection | |
| July 1944 |
|
Best Ghost Stories of M. R. James | World Publishing Co. | Collection | 205 |
| 1955 |
|
More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary | Pan Books | Collection | 7 |
| 1959 |
|
More Ghost Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 7 |
| 1963 |
|
Meer Spookverhalen | Querido | Collection | 7 |
| 1963 |
|
Mystery!: A Treasury for Younger Readers | Funk & Wagnalls | Anthology | 43 |
| 1964 |
|
The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James | Edward Arnold | Collection | 180 |
| 1967 |
|
The House of the Nightmare: And Other Eerie Tales | The Bodley Head | Anthology | 108 |
| April 1967 |
|
Urania #460 | Mondadori | MAGAZINE | 62 |
| December 1967 |
|
The Fourth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 119 |
| December 1967 |
|
The Fourth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 119 |
| 1968 |
|
The House of the Nightmare and Other Eerie Tales | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Anthology | 108 |
| 1969 |
|
The Fourth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 119 |
| April 1970 | The Fourth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 119 | |
| December 1970 |
|
The House of the Nightmare: And Other Eerie Tales | Puffin / Penguin Books (UK) | Anthology | 94 |
| December 1971 |
|
The Fourth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | Beagle Boxer | Anthology | 119 |
| December 1972 |
|
The Fourth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 119 |
| 1973 |
|
Ghost Stories of M. R. James | The Folio Society | Collection | 38 |
| 1973 |
|
The Nightmare Reader | Doubleday & Company | Anthology | 239 |
| August 1973 |
|
The Nightmare Reader | Gollancz | Anthology | 239 |
| 1974 |
|
The Ghost Stories of M. R. James | Edward Arnold | Collection | 180 |
| 1974 |
|
The House of the Nightmare & Other Eerie Tales | Heinemann Educational Books | Anthology | 107 |
| July 1974 |
|
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary | Penguin Books | Omnibus | 157 |
| 1975 | The House of the Nightmare: And Other Eerie Tales | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Anthology | 108 | |
| 1975 | The Ghost Stories of M. R. James | St. Martin's Press | Collection | 180 | |
| 1975 | The Ghost Stories of M. R. James | Edward Arnold | Collection | 180 | |
| October 1975 |
|
The Ghost's Companion | Gollancz | Anthology | 15 |
| 1976 |
|
Cries of Terror | Arrow Books | Anthology | 170 |
| 1976 |
|
The Ghost's Companion | Taplinger | Anthology | 15 |
| April 1976 |
|
The Nightmare Reader: Volume Two | Pan Books | Anthology | 83 |
| 1978 |
|
The Ghost's Companion | Puffin | Anthology | 15 |
| 1978 |
|
Sinister and Supernatural Stories | Ward Lock Educational | Anthology | 59 |
| 1978 |
|
Sinister and Supernatural Stories | Ward Lock Educational | Anthology | 59 |
| 1978 |
|
Ten Ghost Stories | Hodder & Stoughton | Anthology | 56 |
| 1978 |
|
The Fourth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 119 |
| 1980 |
|
Sinister and Supernatural Stories | Ward Lock Educational | Anthology | 59 |
| 1981 |
|
De griezeligste verhalen | Loeb | Anthology | 210 |
| 1982 | Ghost Stories | Octopus Books | Anthology | 39 | |
| 1982 |
|
Ghost Stories | Argo (audio) | Collection | |3 |
| 1984 |
|
The Penguin Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James | Penguin Books | Collection | 108 |
| 1984 | Ghost Stories | Cathay Books | Anthology | 39 | |
| 1985 |
|
Ghost Stories | Cathay Books | Anthology | 39 |
| 1987 |
|
M. R. James | The British Fantasy Society | Nonfiction | 16 |
| April 1987 |
|
Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories | Oxford University Press | Collection | 97 |
| October 1987 |
|
The Penguin Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James | Penguin Books | Collection | |
| July 1988 |
|
More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary | Dover Publications | Collection | |
| 1990 |
|
Dreizehn Geistergeschichten | Suhrkamp | Collection | 56 |
| November 1990 |
|
Horror Story 4 | Garden Editoriale | Anthology | 240 |
| 1992 |
|
Collected Ghost Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Collection | 98 |
| 1992 |
|
Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories | Oxford University Press | Collection | 97 |
| 1992 |
|
Collected Ghost Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Collection | 98 |
| 1993 |
|
Collected Ghost Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Collection | 180 |
| 1994 |
|
Collected Ghost Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Collection | 100 |
| 1994 |
|
Ghost Stories of M. R. James | Godfrey Cave / Penguin | Collection | 108 |
| May 1995 |
|
Selected Ghost Stories | Senate | Collection | |
| October 1995 |
|
Dread and Delight: A Century of Children's Ghost Stories | Oxford University Press | Anthology | 1 |
| November 1995 | Supernatural Stories | Kingfisher | Anthology | 31 | |
| November 1995 |
|
Supernatural Stories | Kingfisher | Anthology | 31 |
| 1996 |
|
Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Anthology | 229 |
| February 1996 |
|
Dread and Delight: A Century of Children's Ghost Stories | Oxford University Press | Anthology | 1 |
| September 1996 |
|
Supernatural Stories | Kingfisher (US) | Anthology | |
| August 2001 |
|
A Pleasing Terror: The Complete Supernatural Writings | Ash-Tree Press | Collection | |
| 2002 | Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories | Oxford University Press | Collection | ||
| January 2003 | Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories | Oxford University Press / SFBC | Collection | ||
| 2004 |
|
The Wordsworth Book of Horror Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Anthology | 423 |
| May 2004 |
|
Supernatural Stories | Kingfisher (US) | Anthology | 31 |
| September 2005 |
|
Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories: The Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James, Volume 1 | Penguin Books (US) | Collection | 121 |
| January 2006 |
|
More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary | Wildside Press | Collection | |
| January 2006 | Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Part 2: More Ghost Stories | Project Gutenberg | Collection | ||
| January 2006 |
|
More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary | Wildside Press | Collection | |
| June 2006 |
|
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary | LibriVox | Omnibus | |9 |
| July 2007 |
|
Collected Ghost Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Collection | |
| September 2007 |
|
Complete Ghost Stories | Collector's Library / CRW Publishing | Collection | |
| October 2007 |
|
Ghost Stories, Volume One | BBC Audiobooks | Collection | |3 |
| January 2009 |
|
Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories | Oxford University Press | Collection | 97 |
| January 2010 |
|
Horror Masters Vol. 6 | River Styx Publishing | Anthology | |
| March 2010 |
|
Ghost Stories: Volume One | BBC Worldwide | Collection | |
| June 2010 |
|
Dark Canon: 22 Stories of Fantasy and Fright by M. R. James | Coachwhip Publications | Collection | 139 |
| October 2010 |
|
A Boxful of Ghosts | Collector's Library / CRW Publishing | Omnibus | |1 |
| 2011 |
|
Szellemjárás Angliában | Delta Vision Kft. | Collection | 189 |
| February 2011 |
|
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories | Aeterna | Collection | 1 |
| April 2011 |
|
Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 13 | LibriVox | Anthology | |20 |
| October 2011 |
|
Collected Ghost Stories | Oxford University Press | Collection | |
| October 2011 |
|
Collected Ghost Stories | Oxford University Press | Collection | |
| November 2011 |
|
Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 15 | LibriVox | Anthology | |18 |
| October 2012 |
|
Cries of Terror | Bloomsbury Reader | Anthology | |
| September 2013 |
|
Collected Ghost Stories | Oxford University Press | Collection | |
| 2015 |
|
Ghost Stories, Volume One | BBC Audiobooks | Collection | |3 |
| August 2015 | Cast of Wonders, Episode 172 | Wolfsbane Publishing | MAGAZINE | ||
| January 2016 | Cast of Wonders, Episode 186 | Escape Artists, Inc. | MAGAZINE | ||
| March 2016 |
|
Таинственный святой | Андрей Танасейчук | Anthology | 106 |
| August 2016 |
|
Sämtliche Geistergeschichten, Band 1 | Festa | Collection | 316 |
| January 2017 |
|
Complete Ghost Stories | Macmillan UK | Collection | |
| January 2017 |
|
Complete Ghost Stories | Macmillan UK | Collection | |
| April 2017 |
|
Collected Ghost Stories | Oxford University Press | Collection | |
| 2018 |
|
Echoing Ghost Stories: Literary Reflections of Oral Tradition | Brom Bones Books | Anthology | 207 |
| September 2018 |
|
Collected Ghost Stories | Gateway / Orion | Collection | |
| September 2019 |
|
HorrorBabble's Ultimate Weird Tales Collection, Volume II | HorrorBabble | Anthology | |16 |
| October 2020 |
|
Ghost Stories | Collins | Collection | |3 |
| November 2020 |
|
M. R. James Quick Classics Collection | Collins | Collection | |3 |
| November 2021 |
|
Un racconto di scuola | Caravaggio Editore | Chapbook | |2 |
| December 2021 |
|
Ghost Stories | Flame Tree Press | Anthology | 152 |