Uncollected Stories by M. R. James - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By M R James

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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781788774611

M R James

Montague Rhodes James was born in 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage, Kent, where his father was a curate, but the family moved soon afterwards to Great Livermere in Suffolk. James attended Eton College and later King's College Cambridge where he won many awards and scholarships. From 1894 to 1908 he was Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and from 1905 to 1918 was Provost of King's College. In 1913, he became Vice-Chancellor of the University for two years. In 1918 he was installed as Provost of Eton. A distinguished medievalist and scholar of international status, James published many works on biblical and historical antiquarian subjects. He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1930. His ghost story writing began almost as a divertissement from his academic work and as a form of entertainment for his colleagues. His first collection, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary was published in 1904. He never married and died in 1936.

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The Complete Works of

M. R. JAMES

VOLUME 6 OF 19

Uncollected Stories

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2013

Version 1

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‘Uncollected Stories’

M. R. James: Parts Edition (in 19 parts)

First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

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M. R. James: Parts Edition

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M. R. JAMES

IN 19 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

The Short Story Collections

1, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

2, More Ghost Stories

3, A Thin Ghost and Others

4, A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories

5, The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James

6, Uncollected Stories

The Children’s Books

7, The Five Jars

8, Forty-Two Stories by Hans Christian Andersen

The Non-Fiction

9, Henry the Sixth: A Reprint of John Blacman’s Memoir

10, The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History

11, Old Testament Legends

12, Prologue to Le Fanu’s Madam Crowl’s Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery

13, The Apocryphal New Testament

14, Introduction to ‘Ghosts and Marvels’

15, Some Remarks on Ghost Stories

16, Ghosts — Treat Them Gently!

The Guidebooks

17, Abbeys

18, Suffolk and Norfolk

The Memoir

19, Eton and King’s: Recollections, Mostly Trivial, 1875-1925

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Uncollected Stories

CONTENTS

The Experiment

The Malice of Inanimate Objects

A Vignette

The Fenstanton Witch

The Experiment

A NEW YEAR’S EVE GHOST STORY

(Full Directions will be found at the End)

The Reverend Dr Hall was in his study making up the entries for the year in the parish register: it being his custom to note baptisms, weddings and burials in a paper book as they occurred, and in the last days of December to write them out fairly in the vellum book that was kept in the parish chest.

To him entered his housekeeper, in evident agitation. ‘Oh, sir,’ said she, ‘whatever do you think? The poor Squire’s gone!’

‘The