I don’t know where I heard about the MR James test. Maybe on Radio 4. Maybe it is apocryphal. But it is a test we want to set you. We expect you to fail. I failed. MR James is the father of the ...

A classic spine-chiller by MR James, the 'father' of the modern ghost story, set on the windswept Suffolk coast. MR James (1862-1936) was a writer and scholar whose ghost stories are widely ...