More Ghost Stories

More Ghost Stories
Author(s)	M. R. James
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Horror short stories
Publisher	Edward Arnold
Publication date	1911
Media type	Print (Hardback)
ISBN	NA
Preceded by	Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Followed by	A Thin Ghost and Others

More Ghost Stories is the title of M. R. James' second collection of ghost stories, published in 1911. Some later editions under the title Ghost Stories of an Antiquary contain with the preceding "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" in one volume.

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.

Contents of the original edition

• "A School Story"
• "The Rose Garden"
• "The Tractate Middoth"
• "Casting the Runes"
• "The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral"
• "Martin's Close"
• "Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance"

References

• "A Guide to Supernatural Fiction". http://homepages.pavilion.co.uk/users/tartarus/j7.htm. Retrieved 2007-03-29. 
• Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. pp. 240. 

Sources

• "M.R. James: free web books, online". http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/james/mr/. Retrieved 2009-09-11. 

External links

• Ghost Stories of an Antiquary at Project Gutenberg (Part 2)
• LibriVox public domain audio-recording: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James