''A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories'' is the title of
M. R. James
Montague Rhodes James (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) was an English author, Medieval studies, medievalist scholar and provost (education), provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936). He was List of ...
' fourth and final collection of ghost stories, published in 1925.
Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was a medievalist scholar;
Provost of
King's College, Cambridge
King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city ...
. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas Day, the festival commemorating the birth of Jesus. Christmas Day is observed around the world, and Christmas Eve is widely observed as a full or partial holiday in anticipation ...
tales. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions.
Contents of the original edition
* "
The Haunted Dolls' House"
* "The Uncommon Prayer-Book"
* "A Neighbour's Landmark"
* "A View from a Hill"
* "
A Warning to the Curious
"A Warning to the Curious" is a ghost story by British writer M. R. James, included in his book '' A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories'' first published in 1925. The tale tells the story of Paxton, an antiquarian and archaeologist w ...
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* "An Evening's Entertainment"
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1925 short story collections
Short story collections by M. R. James
Ghosts in written fiction
Ghost stories
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