A second collection of tales from the master of ghost stories, M. R. James, whose stories have for many years inspired the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas TV adaptations....

Sir Derek Jacobi reads a collection of tales from the master of ghost stories, M. R. James....

The story tells the tale of an introverted academic who happens upon a strange whistle while exploring a cemetery on the East Anglian coast....

Stephen Elliot, a young orphan boy nearly 12, is called to live with a mysterious cousin in the country. Little does Elliot know that Abney has his own alchemical secrets and obsessions that will affect the young boy in ways he cannot imagine....

This is a story from the Classic Ghost Stories collection....

The story of Paxton, an antiquarian and archaeologist who holidays in "Seaburgh" and inadvertently stumbles across one of the lost crowns of Anglia, which legendarily protect the country from invasion....

The tale of a man who unwittingly angers a sorcerer, who is assumed by some Monty scholars to be based on the self-styled 'Great Beast,' occultist Aleister Crowley....

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "An Evening's Entertainment"....

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "A View from a Hill".

M. R. James (Montague Rhodes James) was a noted British medieval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge. He is best remembered today for his ghost stories....