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Stories that inspired M.R. James

Twelve tales of terror recommended by the master of the genre!

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Episode 97 – Mark Gatiss’s Lot 249

15 January 2024

Episode 96 – The Real and the Counterfeit by Louisa Baldwin

21 December 2023

Episode 95 – The Weird of the Walfords by Louisa Baldwin

2 July 2023

Episode 94 – Exploring Eleanor Scott with Vicky Margree and Dan Orrells

21 May 2023

Episode 93 – Count Magnus Awakens

8 January 2023

Episode 92 – Randalls Round by Eleanor Scott

12 December 2022

Episode 91 – Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley

5 November 2022

Episode 90 – Right Through My Hair by Noel Boston

17 September 2022

Episode 89 – Cushi

18 June 2022

Episode 88 – Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book Revisited

22 March 2022

Episode 87 – Mark Gatiss’s The Mezzotint

2 January 2022

Episode 86 – Lucky’s Grove by H.R. Wakefield

21 December 2021

Episode 85 – The Tudor Chimney by A.N.L. Munby

2 August 2021

Episode 84 – Bosworth Summit Pound

29 May 2021

Episode 83 – A Room in a Rectory

6 March 2021

Episode 82 – Echoes from the Abbey

24 December 2020

Episode 81 – The Demoniac Goat by M.P. Dare

3 December 2020

Episode 80 – The Sundial by R.H. Malden

30 October 2020

Episode 79 – The Seventeenth Hole at Duncaster

6 October 2020

Episode 78 – Brother John’s Bequest by Arthur Gray

2 July 2020

Episode 77 – The Man with the Roller by E.G. Swain

7 May 2020

Episode 76 – How Fear Departed From the Long Gallery

29 March 2020

Episode 75 – The Traveller by R.H. Benson

9 February 2020

Ep74 – Review of Martin’s Close on BBC4

6 January 2020

Episode 73 – Out of the sea by A.C. Benson

12 December 2019

Episode 72- By One, By Two and By Three by Adrian Ross

17 November 2019

Episode 71 – An Antiquary’s Ghost Story by Augustus Jessopp

21 August 2019

Episode 70 – Negotium Perambulans by E.F. Benson

7 March 2019

Episode 69 – Smee by A.M. Burrage

20 December 2018

Episode 68: The Death Mask by Mrs H.D. Everett

19 November 2018

Episode 67 – Through a Glass Darkly conference report

10 October 2018

Episode 66 – The Monkey’s Paw

9 September 2018

Episode 65 – The Story of the Moor Road

15 May 2018

Episode 64 – Featherston’s Story by Mrs Henry Wood

11 March 2018

Episode 63 – Christmas Re-union by Sir Andrew Caldecott

21 December 2017

Episode 62 – The Upper Berth by F. Marion Crawford

26 November 2017

Episode 61 – The Open Door by Margaret Oliphant

15 October 2017

Episode 60 – The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens

7 July 2017

Episode 59 – The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

26 April 2017

Episode 58 – The Familiar by J Sheridan Le Fanu

27 February 2017

Episode 57 – The White and the Black by Erckmann-Chatrian

21 December 2016

Episode 56 – A Relation of the Apparition of Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe

31 October 2016

Episode 55 – A Vignette

12 September 2016

Episode 54 – Eton and Kings, part two

14 August 2016

Episode 53 – Jacqueline Simpson interview

26 June 2016

Episode 52 – Eton and King’s, part one

22 May 2016

Episode 51 – M.R. James Conference 2016

31 March 2016

Episode 50 – A Night in King’s College Chapel

6 February 2016

Episode 49 – Twelve Medieval Ghost Stories

22 December 2015

Episode 48 – Auditor and Impresario

17 October 2015

Episode 47 – The Five Jars, Part 3

7 July 2015

Episode 46 – The Five Jars, Part 2

2 May 2015

Episode 45 – Conference Report: MR James and the Modern Ghost Story

14 April 2015

Episode 44 – The Five Jars, Part 1

26 March 2015

Episode 43 – The Malice of Inanimate Objects

8 February 2015

Episode 42 – Christmas bonus – The goblins who stole a sexton by Charles Dickens

24 December 2014

Episode 41 – The MR James and Charles Dickens Christmas Special (with last minute gift guide!)

23 December 2014

Episode 40 – The Experiment

22 November 2014

Episode 39 – Merfield Hall

17 October 2014

Episode 38 – The Game of Bear

25 August 2014

Episode 37 – Wailing Well

24 June 2014

Episode 36 – Suffolk and Norfolk

23 May 2014

Episode 35 – Rats

25 March 2014

Episode 34 – Marcilly-le-Hayer (with Helen Grant)

12 February 2014

Episode 33 – Mark Gatiss’ The Tractate Middoth

26 December 2013

Episode 32 – An Evening’s Entertainment

15 December 2013

Episode 31 – A Warning to the Curious – Part 2 of 2

11 November 2013

Episode 30 – A Warning to the Curious – Part 1 of 2

13 October 2013

Episode 29 – A View from a Hill

2 September 2013

Investigating James: an interview with Patrick J. Murphy and Fred Porcheddu

12 August 2013

Episode 28 – After Dark in the Playing Fields

24 July 2013

Episode 27 – There was a man dwelt by a churchyard

29 June 2013

Episode 26 – A Neighbour’s Landmark

1 June 2013

Interview with A.N. Donaldson

12 May 2013

Episode 25 – The Uncommon Prayer-book

27 April 2013

Episode 24 – The Haunted Dolls’ House

25 March 2013

Reading – ‘Sredni Vashtar’ by Saki

12 March 2013

Episode 23 – The Fenstanton Witch

21 February 2013

Episode 22 – Two Doctors

30 January 2013

Episode 21 – The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance

22 December 2012

Episode 20 – Speaker Lenthall’s Tomb

9 December 2012

Episode 19 – John Humphreys

22 November 2012

Episode 18 – An Episode of Cathedral History

28 October 2012

Episode 17 – The Diary of Mr Poynter

9 October 2012

Reading – Ghosts, Treat them Gently!

16 September 2012

Episode 16b – The Residence at Whitminster Part 2

2 September 2012

Episode 16a – The Residence at Whitminster

15 August 2012

M.R. James 150th Birthday Special!

29 July 2012

Episode 15 – Mr Humphreys and his Interitance

11 July 2012

Episode 14 – Martin’s Close

17 June 2012

Episode 13 – The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral

22 May 2012

Episode 12b – Casting the Runes

10 May 2012

Episode 12a – Casting the Runes

26 April 2012

Episode 11 – The Tractate Middoth

3 April 2012

Episode 10 – The Rose Garden

13 March 2012

Episode 9 – A School Story

29 February 2012

Episode 8 – The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

16 February 2012

Episode 7b – Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad

28 January 2012

Episode 7a – Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad

15 January 2012

Episode 6 – Count Magnus

23 December 2011

Episode 5 – Number 13

17 December 2011

Reading: Stories I Have Tried to Write

16 November 2011

Episode 4 – The Ash-tree

2 November 2011

Episode 3 – The Mezzotint

20 October 2011

Episode 2 – Lost Hearts

5 October 2011

Episode 1 – Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook

21 September 2011

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