Horror stories (16 pages found in this category)


A Thin Ghost and Others

Collection of five short stories by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1919.

A Warning to the Curious

Horror story by M. R. James first published in 1925, about the events following the discovery of an Anglo-Saxon crown.

Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book

Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1895, about a demon depicted in a picture coming to life.

Casting the Runes

Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1911, about the revenge of an author on the reviewer who rejects his paper on alchemy.

Count Magnus

Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1904, about the death of a travelogue writer who inadvertently releases two demons from the sarcophagus of Count Magnus.

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Collection of eight short stories by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1904.

Lost Hearts

Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1895, about a man who believes that he can obtain magical powers by consuming the hearts of three people under the age of twenty-one.

More Ghost Stories

Collection of seven short stories by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1911.

Number 13 (short story)

Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1904, about a hotel room that only exists during the hours of darkness.

Pollock and the Porroh Man

Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1895, about a murdered witch-doctor whose severed head haunts the man responsible for his death.