By Montague Rhodes James
The Afterword for this primary amassed variation of M. R. James's "Complete Ghost Stories" is through the well known crime author and eminent Sherlockian, David Stuart Davies. It includes 3 additional tales written after e-book of M. R. James's "Collected Ghost Stories": "The Experiment", "The Malice of Inanimate Objects" and "A Vignette".
The whole checklist of reports is
Canon Alberic's Scrapbook
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 college Story
The Rose Garden
The Tractate Middoth
Casting the Runes
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
Martin's Close
Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance
The place of abode at Whitminster
The Diary of Mr Poynter
An Episode of Cathedral History
The tale of a Disappearance and an Appearance
Two Doctors
The Haunted Dolls' House
The unusual Prayer-Book
A Neighbour's Landmark
A View from a Hill
A caution to the Curious
An Evening's Entertainment
Wailing Well
There used to be a guy Dwelt by way of a Churchyard
Rats
After darkish within the taking part in Fields
The Experiment
The Malice of Inanimate Objects
A Vignette
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It was a rather indifferent mezzotint, and an indifferent mezzotint is, perhaps, the worst form of engraving known. It presented a full-face view of a not very large manor house of the last century, with three rows of plain sashed windows with rusticated masonry about them, a parapet with balls or vases at the angles, and a small portico in the centre. On either side were trees, THE MEZZOTINT and i n front a considerable expanse o f lawn. The legend 'A . W. F. sculpsit' was engraved on the narrow margin; and there was no further inscription.
Certainly I will. ' 'Is it really? My goodness! he must have got in,' said Williams, with great excitement; and he hurried to the back of the sofa on which Nisbet was sitting, and, catching the picture from him, verified the matter for himself. It was quite true. There was no figure, and there was the open window. Williams, after a moment of speechless surprise, went to the writing-table and scribbled for a short time. Then he brought two papers to Nisbet, and asked him first to sign one - it was his own description of the picture, which you have just heard - and then to read the other which was Williams's statement written the night before.
I shall leave it out on the table here, and sport the door. ' The three agreed that this would be a good plan; and, further, that if they spent the afternoon together they would be less likely to talk about the business to other people; for any rumour of such a transaction as was going on would bring the whole of the Phasmato logical Society about their ears. We may give them a respite until five o'clock. At or near that hour the three were entering Williams's staircase. They were at first slightly annoyed to see that the door of his rooms was unsported; but in a moment it was remembered that on Sunday the skips came for orders an hour or so earlier than on weekdays.