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===Ghost stories=== ====First book publications==== *''[[Ghost Stories of an Antiquary]]''. 1904. 8 stories. *''[[More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary]]''. 1911. 7 stories. *''[[A Thin Ghost and Others]]''. 1919. 5 stories. *''[[A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories]]''. 1925. 6 stories. *''[[Wailing Well]]''. 1928 (tale), Mill House Press, [[Stanford Dingley]]. ====First magazine publication of uncollected tales==== *"[[After Dark in the Playing Fields]]", in ''College Days'' (Eton ephemeral magazine), no. 10 (28 June 1924), pp. 311β312, 314 *"[[There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard]]", in ''Snapdragon'' (Eton ephemeral magazine), 6 December 1924, pp. 4β5 *"[[Rats (short story)|Rats]]", in ''At Random'' (Eton ephemeral magazine), 23 March 1929, pp. 12β14 *"[[The Experiment: A New Year's Eve Ghost Story]]", in ''[[Morning Post]]'', 31 December 1931, p. 8 *"The Malice of Inanimate Objects", in ''The Masquerade'' (Eton ephemeral magazine), no. 1 (June 1933), pp. 29β32 *"[[A Vignette]]", written 1935, in ''[[London Mercury]]'' 35 (November 1936), pp. 18β22 ====Reprint collections==== *''[[The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James]]''. 1931. Contains the 26 stories from the original four books, plus "After Dark in the Playing Fields" (1924), "There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard" (1924), "Wailing Well" (1928), and "Rats" (1929). It does not include three stories completed between 1931 and James's death in 1936. *''Best Ghost Stories of M. R. James''. 1944. *''The Ghost Stories of M. R. James''. 1986. Selection by Michael Cox, including an excellent introduction with numerous photographs. *''Two Ghost Stories: A Centenary''. 1993. *''The Fenstanton Witch and Others: M. R. James in Ghosts and Scholars''. 1999. Contains seven unpublished or unfinished tales or drafts: "A Night in King's College Chapel" (1892?), "[[The Fenstanton Witch]]" (1924?), "John Humphreys" (unfinished, pre-1911), "Marcilly-le-Hayer"(story draft, pre-1929), "Speaker Lenthall's Tomb" (unfinished, 1890s?), "The Game of Bear" (unfinished) and "Merfield House" (unfinished). *''A Pleasing Terror: The Complete Supernatural Writings''. 2001. Ash-Tree Press. Contains 40 stories: the 30 stories from ''Collected Ghost Stories'', the three tales published after them and the seven items from ''The Fenstanton Witch and Others''. It also includes some related non-fiction by James and some writings about him by others. It is the only complete collection of his ghost fiction, although revised versions of unfinished tales and drafts have subsequently appeared on the Ghosts and Scholars website, following further deciphering of James's handwriting. *''Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories''. 2005. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by [[S. T. Joshi]]. *''The Haunted Dolls' House and Other Ghost Stories''. 2006. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by S. T. Joshi. *''Curious Warnings: The Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James''. 2012. Edited, reparagraphing the text for the modern reader, by Stephen Jones.
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