Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
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174
1904
English
- Preface to Vol. 1 and Canon Alberic
- Lost Hearts
- The Mezzotint
- The Ash-Tree
- Number 13
- Count Magnus
- Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad
- The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
- Preface to Vol. 2 and A School Story
- The Rose Garden
- The Tractate Middoth
- Casting the Runes
- The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
- Martin’s Close
- Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance – Part One
- Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance – Part Two
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)
“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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