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  • A School Story

  • A Short Horror from the Master of Ghost Stories
  • By: M. R. James
  • Narrated by: Lizzie Abbott
  • Length: 18 mins

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A School Story

By: M. R. James
Narrated by: Lizzie Abbott
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First published in 1911, A School Story is a classic paranormal tale written by M. R. James, an author considered to be the originator of the modern-age ghost story. Though popular in written form, his stories were in fact designed to be read out loud - something he would do every Christmas in his role as housemaster to young boys boarding at Eton school. In this particularly story - itself set at a boarding school - a Latin teacher is troubled by unusual phrases from the dead language that start to show up among the work he sets his students; something about the phrases remind him of a dark secret from his past....

Public Domain (P)2021 Acorn Classics

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