The Anthology of Ghost Stories of M. R. James. Tales of horror and mystery

The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James is an omnibus collection of ghost stories.Many of these stories are time-tested classics.Montague Rhodes James is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some consider among the best in the genre. He redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. However, his protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story".H. P. Lovecraft was an admirer of James's work, extolling the stories as the peak of the ghost story form in his essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature".Contents:CANON ALBERIC'S SCRAP-BOOKLOST HEARTSTHE MEZZOTINTTHE ASH-TREENUMBER 13COUNT MAGNUSTHE TREASURE OF ABBOT THOMASA SCHOOL STORYTHE ROSE GARDENTHE STALLS OF BARCHESTER CATHEDRALTHE DIARY OF MR. POYNTERAN EPISODE OF CATHEDRAL HISTORYTHE STORY OF A DISAPPEARANCE AND AN APPEARANCEAN EVENING'S ENTERTAINMENTA WARNING TO THE CURIOUSA NEIGHBOUR'S LANDMARKTHE UNCOMMON PRAYER-BOOKTHE HAUNTED DOLLS' HOUSEWAILING WELLTHERE WAS A MAN DWELT BY A CHURCHYARDRATSAFTER DARK IN THE PLAYING FIELDSTHE EXPERIMENTTHE MALICE OF INANIMATE OBJECTSA VIGNETTE