The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral

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"The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral"
Short story by M.R. James

Country	England
Language	English
Genre(s)	Horror
Publication
Publication date	1910

"The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral" is a ghost story by British writer M. R. James, originally published in 1910. It is included in his collection More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.

Plot summary

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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]

Adaptations

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

References

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^ James, M.R. (1993). Collected ghost stories (Repr. ed.). Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth. pp. 146–159. ISBN 1853260533.
^ "The Stalls of Barchester". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 August 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2015.

External links

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The full text of The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral at Wikisource
An omnibus collection of James's short fiction at Standard Ebooks
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

v t e 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" "The Haunted Dolls' House" "A Warning to the Curious" "A Vignette"
Collections	Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) More Ghost Stories (1911) A Thin Ghost and Others (1919) A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925) The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James (1931)
Adaptations	Night of the Demon (1957) Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968) A Ghost Story for Christmas (1971–present)

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