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This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "Martin's Close". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "An Evening's Entertainment". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "An Episode of Cathedral History". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Experiment". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "Count Magnus". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged recording of M R James' excellent story "Canon Alberic's Scrap-book". Read by David Collings it is sure to scare and delight in equal measure!

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "A View from a Hill". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "Wailing Well". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "Rats". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Residence at Whitminster". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is an unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Uncommon Prayer Book". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "Lost Hearts". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Diary of Mr Poynter". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

M. R. James es sin duda uno de los más significados miembros de esa característica saga de eruditos ingleses que compaginaron y compaginan su obra científica y académica con la literatura popular. Su obra no desmerece a la de Poe o Lovecraft.  

Sus cuentos creados fueron publicados gracias a sus amigos editores, Historias de fantasmas de un anticuario (1904), su primera obra impresa de este género y que reúne 8 cuentos fundamentales para explicar la forma de entender el miedo en la literatura que este autor creó acaso sin querer pero cuya influencia fue fundamental en décadas posteriores.

Relata la historia del reverendo Somerton, un erudito medievalista, quien decide narrar cómo descubrió las inquietantes pistas del tesoro de un desgraciado abad mientras investigaba en la biblioteca de la abadía. El vínculo entre el horror y los sitios sagrados, particularmente las iglesias, abadías y monasterios, es algo que acompaña a este autor -también erudito, también medievalista-.

¡Silba y acudiré! se abre con una conversación cotidiana sobre unas vacaciones en las que se desliza, casi sin pretenderlo, la información que desencadenará la venida del fantasma: Parkins, el héroe, será informado de la existencia de las ruinas de un viejo monasterio templario, pero él dará a esta información casual, casi peregrina, una importancia relativa, que sólo su curiosidad ociosa terminará por volver relevante.