The Tractate Middoth

Ghost story by M. R. James, first published in 1911, about a disputed inheritance and the long-dead clergyman who guards his last will and testament.

Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance

Ghost story by M. R. James, first published in 1911, about a strange maze and temple on a recently inherited estate in Wiltshire.

A Thin Ghost and Others

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

The Haunted Dolls’ House

Horror story by M. R. James published in 1925, about the contents of a doll’s house that come to life.

Martin’s Close

Ghost story by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1911. It centres on the trial of the local squire about 200 years earlier, accused of murdering a young woman who several witnesses claimed to have seen after her death.

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.

Flannan Isle

Ballad by the English poet Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, an imaginative account of the unexplained disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in December 1900.

A School Story

Ghost story by M. R. James, first published in 1911, about the mysterious disappearance of a school teacher.