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CANON ALBERIC’S SCRAP-BOOK

LOST HEARTS

THE MEZZOTINT

THE ASH-TREE

NUMBER 13

COUNT MAGNUS

“OH, WHISTLE, AND I’LL COME TO YOU, MY LAD”

THE TREASURE OF ABBOTT THOMAS

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

APPENDIX

PREFACE TO GHOST-STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY

PREFACE TO MORE GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY

Explanatory Notes

COUNT MAGNUS AND OTHER GHOST STORIES

MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES was born in 1862 at Goodnestone, in Kent, but spent most of his early years at Livermere Hall in Suffolk. He attended Temple Grove preparatory school and Eton before beginning a long association with King’s College, Cambridge, first as a student (1882), then as a Fellow (1887), Dean (1889), Tutor (1900), and Provost (1905). He was also director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (1893-1908). His first volume of ghost stories, Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary, appeared in 1904, followed by three other volumes: More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911), A Thin Ghost (1919), and A Warning to the Curious (1925). His Collected Ghost Stories appeared in 1931. In 1918 he became Provost of Eton, remaining in that office for the rest of his life. Throughout his career James published many distinguished works of scholarship, especially on medieval manuscripts, Biblical apocrypha, and church history; among his important publications were The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts (1919) and The Apocryphal New Testament (1924). His autobiography, Eton and King’s, was issued in 1926. Among his many honors was the Order of Merit, bestowed upon him by King George V in 1930. James, who never married, died in 1936.