Casting the Runes

Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King’s College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions.“Ghost Stories of an Antiquary” was written as two collections, presented here as two volumes in a single work. There is a short author’s preface before the first story in each volume. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)

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Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance – Part Two

Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance – Part One

Martin’s Close

The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James (1862 - 1936)

Casting the Runes

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