A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories

A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925)
by Montague Rhodes James
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A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS

By Dr M.R. JAMES

Provost of Eton


Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

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More Ghost Stories

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A Thin Ghost and Others

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The Five Jars

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London: Edward Arnold & Co.

A WARNING TO
THE CURIOUS

and other Ghost Stories

BY
MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES
Author of ‘“ Ghost Stories of an Antiquary,” etc.


FIFTH IMPRESSION

LONDON
EDWARD ARNOLD & CO.
1926

[All rights reserved]

MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY
THE EDINBURGH PRESS, 9 AND II YOUNG STREET, EDINBURGH.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The first of these stories was written for the library of the Queen’s Doll’s House, and was printed in the Book thereof; I gratefully acknowledge the gracious permission granted by Her Majesty to have it reprinted in this volume.

For like permissions from the editors of the Atlantic Monthly, Empire Review, London Mercury, and Eton Chronic I return thanks.

M. R. JAMES.

September 1925.

CONTENTS

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