Authors: M. R. James, Michael Cox
ISBN-13: 9780199538577, ISBN-10: 0199538573
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: March 2009
Edition: Reissue
M.R. James was one of the most accomplished scholars of his generation, a brilliant, internationally known authority on early Christian manuscripts. He was in turn a Fellow, Dean, and Provost of Kings College, Cambridge, and then finally the Provost of Eton, where he died a much-loved and revered figure in 1936.
Michael Chabon is the author of Wonder Boys, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
This selection of twenty-one short stories by M.R. Jamesa first-class writer of supernatural fictionrepresents his best work, including "Count Magnus," "The Rose Garden," "The Uncommon Prayer-book," "Rats," "The Malice of Inanimate Objects," and "A Vignette," as well as the title story.
Canon Alberic's Scrap-book | 1 | |
The Mezzotint | 14 | |
Number 13 | 26 | |
Count Magnus | 43 | |
'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' | 57 | |
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas | 78 | |
A School Story | 97 | |
The Rose Garden | 105 | |
The Tractate Middoth | 117 | |
Casting the Runes | 135 | |
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral | 157 | |
My Humphreys and His Inheritance | 172 | |
The Diary of Mr Poynter | 199 | |
An Episode of Cathedral History | 210 | |
The Uncommon Prayer-book | 228 | |
A Neighbour's Landmark | 244 | |
A Warning to the Curious | 257 | |
Rats | 275 | |
The Experiment | 281 | |
The Malice of Inanimate Objects | 288 | |
A Vignette | 293 |