It was very likely true: he was morbid in other ways, certainly. He was an elderly man who kept very much to himself, and people said he was something of a miser. She said she saw - but never mind what she said anyhow, she gave her husband no peace till he agreed to move into a larger house in the village street, and the old one was taken by John Poole, who was a widower, and lived there alone. It had once belonged to the parish priest, but (this was in Queen Elizabeth’s days) the priest was a married man and wanted more room besides, his wife disliked seeing the churchyard at night out of her bedroom window. The front windows looked out on the street and the back ones on the churchyard. His house had a lower story of stone and an upper one of timber.

Everybody may set it in what frame he likes best. It was not going to be a new story: it was to be one which you have most likely heard, and even told. Now what was it going to have been? Shakespeare knew, no doubt, and I will be bold to say that I do. There is no more of the story Mamilius died soon after without having a chance of finishing it. This, you know, is the beginning of the story about sprites and goblins which Mamilius, the best child in Shakespeare, was telling to his mother the queen, and the court ladies, when the king came in with his guards and hurried her off to prison. James on Ghost Stories 1.There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard Rats After Dark in the Playing Fields Wailing Well The Experiment: A New Year’s Eve Ghost Story The Malice of Inanimate Objects A Vignette Appendix: M. Responsibility to check the applicable copyright laws in your country beforeĭownloading this work. HOWEVER, copyright law varies in other countries, and the work may still be underĬopyright in the country from which you are accessing this website. To the best of our knowledge, the text of this

Collected ghost stories by mr james