A golden summer evening in the second decade of the twentieth century.

M. R. James is now Provost of Eton College. A select group is gathered in his lodgings to hear him read: a few masters, some Eton boys and an old friend, H. E Luxmoore.

Pleasurable anticipation amongst the company is mixed with a little apprehension at what this master of terror will give them to dream about tonight...

The 7 stories in Part 3 of this definitive recording of all of James’s published tales of ‘pleasing terror’ are:

Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance;

The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance;

An Episode of Cathedral History;

The Residence at Whitminster;

The Diary of Mr Poynter;

Two Doctors;

The Uncommon Prayer-Book.