'Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary' by M.R. James
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Genre(s) Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Read in English by Peter Yearsley
Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King’s College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions.
“Ghost Stories of an Antiquary” was written as two collections, presented here as two volumes in a single work. There is a short author’s preface before the first story in each volume. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)
0:00 1 - Preface to Vol. 1 and Canon Alberic
34:35 2 - Lost Hearts
01:01:44 3 - The Mezzotint
01:32:44 4 - The Ash-Tree
02:07:51 5 - Number 13
02:48:05 6 - Count Magnus
03:25:02 7 - Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad
04:14:55 8 - The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
05:04:57 9 - Preface to Vol. 2 and A School Story
05:23:48 10 - The Rose Garden
05:52:37 11 - The Tractate Middoth
06:35:43 12 - Casting the Runes
07:29:35 13 - The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
08:09:47 14 - Martin’s Close
08:58:54 15 - Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance – Part One
09:28:21 16 - Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance – Part Two