Stories that inspired M.R. James
Twelve tales of terror recommended by the master of the genre!
Episodes
Episode 98 – The Nature of the Evidence by May Sinclair
27 March 2024
Episode 97 – Mark Gatiss’s Lot 249
15 January 2024
Episode 96 – The Real and the Counterfeit by Louisa Baldwin
21 December 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 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 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 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 44 – The Five Jars, Part 1
26 March 2015
Episode 43 – The Malice of Inanimate Objects
8 February 2015
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
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
