The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James

About this book

An old engraving of a country house seems harmless until a figure begins to move inside it. A scholar finds a whistle that should never have been blown. A lonely beach becomes the site of an impossible visitation.

M. R. James preferred quiet beginnings and precisely observed settings, allowing terror to emerge from an overlooked document or object. His ghosts often punish curiosity, yet he gives his investigators enough curiosity to keep searching. The collected stories reveal how a master of restraint could make an almost empty room feel crowded.