22 stories from M. R. James, most of which are his typical (superlative) antiquarian ghost tales. The last is a children's fantasy that is quite good.
The stories included are:
- 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 Whitminster
- The Diary of Mr. Poynter
- An Episode of Cathedral History
- The Story of a Disappearance an Appearance
- Two Doctors
- The Uncommon Prayer-Book
- The Five Jars
