Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Michael Cox`He flew out of his chair with deadly inconceivable terror clutching at his heart. The shape whose left hand rested on the table was rising to a standing posture behind his seat, its right hand crooked above his scalp.`Canon Alberic`s Scrap-bookGhost Stones of an Antiquary (1904) established the reputation of M. R. James as a first-class writer of supernatural fiction; the Collected Edition of his stories has never been out of print. A prodigiously original imagination