Appendix Z - M. R. James

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