Appendix Z - M.
R. James
He
writes frightening ghost and horror stories. I think he is the scariest ghost
story writer I've come across. His work doesn't fit into the 'weird' as much as
it does into the 'horror', but not the more modern blood and atrocities kind of
horror. His is the kind of horror that can make you want to look under the bed,
or maybe, not want to look under the bed. The kind of story that dreaming about
can wake you up in the middle of the night and turn the light on. You read his
story and you think about locking the door and maybe wedging a chair up under
the handle or you begin to regret that shutterless big glass window in your
room. This man is definitely a master.
A
Neighbour's Landmark
A
Night in King's College Chapel
A
School Story
A
View from a Hill
A
Vignette
A
Warning to the Curious
After
Dark in the Playing Fields
An
Episode of Cathedral History
An
Evening's Entertainment
The
Ash-tree
Canon
Alberic's Scrap-book
Casting
the Runes
Count
Magnus
The
Diary of Mr Poynter
The
Experiment
The
Fenstanton Witch
The
Game of Bear (unfinished)
John
Humphreys (unfinished)
Lost
Hearts
The
Malice of Inanimate Objects
Marcilly-le-Hayer
(draft)
Martin's
Close
Merfield
House (unfinished)
The
Mezzotint
Mr
Humphreys and His Inheritance
Number
13
"Oh,
Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad
Rats
The
Residence at Whitminster
The
Rose Garden
Speaker
Lenthall's Tomb (incomplete)
The
Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
The
Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance
There
Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
The
Tractate Middoth
The
Treasure of Abbot Thomas
Two
Doctors
The
Uncommon Prayer-book
Wailing
Well
Adding this author to my own appendix N. Thanks for pointing the way!
ReplyDeleteJeff Talanian of Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperboria fame pointed out this fantastic review of M.R. James by Clark Ashton Smith.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/nonfiction/15/the-weird-works-of-m.r.-james