Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories: The Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James, Volume 1

The only annotated edition of M. R. James's writings currently available

Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories contains the entire first two volumes of James's ghost stories, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. These volumes are both the culmination of the nineteenth-century ghost story tradition and the inspiration for much of the best twentieth-century work in this genre. Included in this collection are such landmark tales as "Count Magnus," set in the wild...