Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Francisco Goya, Edvard Munch and Arnold Böcklin. Both series of the ghost stories a Cambridge provost wrote to read aloud to friends at Christmas: the scrapbook that should not have been bought, the whistle blown on a lonely beach, the ash tree outside the window. James was a medievalist by trade and put the horror in the margins of manuscripts and cathedral records, where he worked. Fifty-eight plates by painters including Munch and Goya turn on the same haunted architecture the tales do: cathedrals, winter streets, and the shadowed places where scholars meet what they should not.