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M.R. James: Supernatural Storyteller Trailer
Montague Rhodes James OM FBA was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936). He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–15). James is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some consider among the best in the genre. He redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. However, his protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story".
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23 December 1974
The Reverend Justin Somerton, a scholar of medieval history, and his protégé Lord Peter Dattering are visiting an abbey library.
23 December 1975
Man of leisure Sir Richard receives notification that his Uncle has died, bequeathing him his stately country manor and all its lands.
24 April 1979
The producer of an investigative television programme which is critical of an occultist finds out that he has a curse put on her.
25 December 1973
A young orphan, Stephen, is sent to go and live with his strange, much older cousin at his remote country house.
24 December 1971
Scholar Dr. Black's seemingly mundane assignment of sorting through the assets of the Barchester Cathedral library takes an eerie turn when he comes across the papers of the late Archdeacon, who plotted to gain his position through murder.
09 November 1957
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before.
22 December 2006
In order to authenticate some historical papers in a cathedral town, Oxbridge academic Anderson stays at a local hotel in room 12, initially disregarding the lack of a number 13 as provincial superstition.
10 March 1989
In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence, and demonic vengeance.
24 December 2010
After placing his ailing wife Alice in a care home, elderly academic James Parkin goes to stay at a wintry out-of-season hotel which they used to visit together.
25 December 2013
The chilling story of Dr Rant, whose wicked streak continues from beyond the grave. Based on the festive ghost story by MR James.
01 January 1956
A man finds a whistle bearing a mysterious Latin inscription, which, when blown, awakens horrors beyond human understanding.
24 December 1972
Paxton, an amateur archeologist, travels to the town of Seaburgh and inadvertently stumbles across one of the lost crowns of Anglia, which, according to legend, protect the county from invasion.
24 December 2019
A young squire accused of murdering a young girl that did not return his feelings of love reveals a supernatural secret at his trial.
24 December 2021
1923. In the heart of an old English college, Edward Williams receives an engraving of of an unknown country house with an imposing facade, a sweeping lawn - and, just perhaps, something else.
07 January 2007
A modern working of the 1893 M.R James ghost story Lost Hearts. An orphaned boy come to live with his reclusive relative, but there are strange manifestations in the house.
31 December 1986
Five partially-dramatized readings of classic M.R. James ghost stories by actor Robert Powell. Including "The Mezzotint", "The Ash-Tree", "The Rose Garden", "Wailing Well" and "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad".
07 May 1968
A university professor, confident that everything which occurs in life has a rational explanation, finds his beliefs severely challenged when, during a vacation to a remote coastal village in Norfolk, he blows through an ancient whistle discovered on a beach, awakening horrors beyond human understanding.
24 December 2005
On holiday, a young man borrows a pair of binoculars when his own are broken. But they seem somehow bewitched, showing things that could only be seen with dead men's eyes.
23 December 2022
The inquisitive Mr Wraxhall discovers that a long-dead Swedish nobleman does not lie easy in his tomb.
21 June 1976
Mr Humphreys, a modest clerk, unexpected inherits a country mansion from an obscure uncle. In its grounds lies a maze and when he explores it, the new owner disturbs something frightening at its centre.
01 January 2010
The Wailing Well is a classic English ghost story on the theme of retribution. Set in 1920s England, three boy scouts find themselves separated from their troop on a county hike.
07 May 1951
An anxious old man who is searching for a rare edition of the Talmud finally tracks the tome down at a research library in Boston.
01 August 2023
Brought to life through animation, this collection of seven eerie stories takes viewers on a haunting journey through the Victorian era.
22 December 2004
Ruth Rendell, Michael Cox, Lawrence Gordon Clark, Muriel Gray, Kim Newman, and Christopher Frayling are among the contributors in this appreciation of the influential ghost-story writer.
01 January 2011
A man spends a terrifying night in a room infested with rats.
06 September 2015
"Living Night", also known as "A Livermere Poem", was written by English scholar and ghost story writer Montague Rhodes James.
01 January 2012
A collector of antique doll’s houses buys a bargain that turns out to be cursed.
