Collected ghost stories

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

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

The residence at Whitminister

The diary of Mr. Poynter

An episode of cathedral history

The story of a disappearance and an appearance

Two doctors

The haunted dolls' house

The uncommon prayer-book

A neighbour's landmark

A view from a hill

A warning to the curious

An evening's entertainment

There was a man dwelt by a churchyard

Rats

After dark in the playing fields

Wailing well

The experiment

The malice of inanimate objects

A vignette

Appendix: M.R. James on ghost stories