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M. R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement, convincing background and chilling terror. As well as the preface, there is a fascinating tail-piece by M. R. James, Stories I Have Tried to Write, which accompanies these thi M. R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement, convincing background and chilling terror. As well as the preface, there is a fascinating tail-piece by M. R. James, Stories I Have Tried to Write, which accompanies these thirty tales. Among them are Casting the Runes, Oh, Whistle and Ill Come to You, My Lad, The Tractate Middoth, The Ash Tree and Canon Alberics Scrapbook. There are some authors one wishes one had never read in order to have the joy of reading them for the first time. For me, M. R. James is one of these. Ruth Rendall Contents: Canon Alberics Scrapbook 1895 Lost Hearts 1895 The Mezzotint 1904 The Ash-Tree 1904 Number 13 1904 Count Magnus 1904 Oh, Whistle, and Ill Come to You, My Lad 1904 The Treasure of Abbot Thomas 1904 A School Story 1911 The Rose Garden 1911 The Tractate Middoth 1911 Casting the Runes 1911 The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral 1910 Martins Close 1911 Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance 1911 The Residence at Whitminster 1919 The Diary of Mr. Poynter 1919 An Episode of Cathedral History 1914 The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance 1913 Two Doctors 1919 The Haunted Dolls House 1923 The Uncommon Prayer-Book 1925 A Neighbours Landmark 1924 A View from a Hill 1925 A Warning to the Curious 1925 An Evenings Entertainment 1925 There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard 1924 Rats 1929 After Dark in the Playing Fields 1924 Wailing Well 1928