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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, by M. R. James This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Author: M. R. James Posting Date: March 21, 2010 [EBook #8486] Release Date: July, 2005 First Posted: July 15, 2003 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Thomas Berger, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. M. R. JAMES GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY * * * * * _These stories are dedicated to all those who at various times have listened to them._ * * * * * CONTENTS PART 1: GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY 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 Abbot Thomas PART 2: MORE GHOST STORIES 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 * * * * * PART 1: GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY * * * * * If anyone is curious about my local settings, let it be recorded that St Bertrand de Comminges and Viborg are real places: that in 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You' I had Felixstowe in mind. As for the fragments of ostensible erudition which are scattered about my pages, hardly anything in them is not pure invention; there never was, naturally, any such book as that which I quote in 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas'. 'Canon Alberic's Scrap-book' was written in 1894 and printed soon after in the _National Review_, 'Lost Hearts' appeared in the _Pall Mall Magazine_; of the next five stories, most of which were read to friends at Christmas-time at King's College, Cambridge, I only recollect that I wrote 'Number 13' in 1899, while 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas' was composed in the summer of 1904. M. R. JAMES * * * * * CANON ALBERIC'S SCRAP-BOOK St Bertrand de Comminges is a decayed tow
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