M. R. James

Mystery surrounds a certain Mr. Karswell. He has purchased an old abbey, is a known alchemist, and has written a ludicrous history of witchcraft....

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

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

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....

M.R. James' second collection of ghost stories which he wrote whilst Provost of King's College, Cambridge to be read aloud....

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....

This is an unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Haunted Dolls House". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure....

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Residence at Whitminster"....

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....

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "A Neighbour's Landmark".