The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral

"The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral"

Author	M.R. James
Country	England
Language	English
Genre(s)	Horror short story

"The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral" is the fifth story in the second collection of ghost stories published by M. R. James, More Ghost Stories.

Synopsis

Archdeacon Pultney of Barchester Cathedral dies mysteriously and the new Archdeacon Haynes takes his place. Haynes is very talented and performs the duties of his office with great zeal, however he is haunted by the carved figures in the stalls of Barchester Cathedral.^[1]

Adaptions

The story was adapted in 1971 for BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas as The Stalls of Barchester.^[2]

References

↑ James, M.R. (1993). Collected ghost stories (Repr. ed.). Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth. pp. 146–159. ISBN 1853260533.
↑ "The Stalls of Barchester". BFI. Retrieved 2015-02-19.

External links

The full text of The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral at Wikisource
Full text of "The Stall of Barchester Cathedral"
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral public domain audiobook at LibriVox
A Podcast to the Curious: Episode 13 - The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral

Works by M. R. James

Short stories	"Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book" "Lost Hearts" "The Mezzotint" "The Ash-tree" " Number 13" "Count Magnus" "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'" "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas" "A School Story" " The Rose Garden" "The Tractate Middoth" "Casting the Runes" "The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral" "Martin's Close" "Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance" "A View from a Hill" "A Warning to the Curious"

Collections	Ghost Stories of an Antiquary More Ghost Stories A Thin Ghost and Others A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James

Adaptations	Night of the Demon A Ghost Story for Christmas

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