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The patron saint - if thats the right word; perhaps guiding spirit? - behind these witty and literate ghost stories is M.R. James (1862-1936). He is primarily known as The Pierpont Morgan Library and at similar august homes of learning as a redoubtable scholar and bibliographer. To many more devotees around the world, though, he is generally acclaimed as the author of some of the most economical, clearly focused, concise, and elegant ghost stories every written. Only the English language serves this genre so well, and Jamess English craft is at the top of anyones short list of favorites. MontyJames enjoyed a long and happy professional relationship with the Morgan Library. He did so, in a sense, only in spirit: he never crossed the Atlantic, and he feared that he would not survive crossing New Yorks streets. His name was much in evidence when the 150th anniversary of Pierpont Morgans birth was celebrated several years ago. His work on medieval manuscripts was the focal point of an exhibition held in 1987, and that exhibition gave birth to a strange offspring - a contest for ghost stories connected in some way with the Morgan Library and written in a Jamesian style. This book contains the seven winning stories. Will they make you pleasantly uneasy late at night? Will they make your scalp prickle disturbingly? Youll just have to read them to find out, wont you?

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title:Morgan Library Ghost Stories
author:Dupont, Inge.
publisher:Fordham University Press
isbn10 | asin:0823212831
print isbn13:9780823212835
ebook isbn13:9780585120829
language:English
subjectGhost stories, American--New York (State)--New York, City and town life--New York (State)--New York--Fiction, Pierpont Morgan Library--Literary collections, James, M. R.--(Montague Rhodes),--1862-1936--Parodies, imitations, etc.
publication date:1990
lcc:PS648.G48P5 1990eb
ddc:813/.0873308
subject:Ghost stories, American--New York (State)--New York, City and town life--New York (State)--New York--Fiction, Pierpont Morgan Library--Literary collections, James, M. R.--(Montague Rhodes),--1862-1936--Parodies, imitations, etc.
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Morgan Library Ghost Stories
Edited by
Inge Dupont and Hope Mayo
With an Introduction by
Hope Mayo
Wood Engravings By
John De Pol
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK MCMXC Page 4 Morgan Library - photo 3
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW YORK MCMXC
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Morgan Library Ghost Stories
Text copyright: 1990, by Inge Dupont and Hope Mayo
Illustrations copyright: 1990, John De Pol
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted in any form without permission.
Permission to reproduce any material must be obtained from Stone House Press,
P.O. Box 196, Roslyn, New York 11576.
Reprinted from the original edition by The Stone House Press
Library of Congress Card Number: 90-82150
ISBN 0-8232-1283-1
Printed in the United States of America
Frontispiece illustration: The Old Library
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Contents
Introduction
Hope Mayo
7
Old Macgregor: A Tale of Hallowe'en
Rhoda Mansbach
19
Lily Hodge
Herbert Cahoon
33
Lex Talionis
J. Rigbie Turner
40
The Ballad of the Belle
Mark Farrell
58
The Clergyman's Bargain
Janet Ing Freeman
65
Non Furtum Facies
Richard Priest
80
Slide Lecture
Liran Ludeley
87
Notes on the Contributors
105

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List of Illustrations
The Old Library
[Frontispiece]
The Courtyard
11
The West Room
25
The Reading Room
82
The Entrance
91

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Introduction
Hope Mayo
This volume of Morgan Library Ghost Stories had its origin in an exhibition entitled "Pierpont Morgan's Manuscripts and M. R. James," sponsored by the Library in the spring of 1987 as a part of the 150th anniversary celebration of Pierpont Morgan's birth. In a lecture with the same title as the exhibition, given at the Library on 27 May 1987, I explored in some detail the work done by Montague Rhodes James, the foremost medieval manuscript scholar of his day, on the first, and still the only, published catalogue of Morgan Library manuscripts. Important as James's work on this and other catalogues was in developing techniques for the study of the medieval book, he is known far more widely as the author of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and several similar collections. Even people who are completely unaware of his scholarly attainments and know nothing of the subjects of his erudition appreciate the manner in which he used his knowledge of medieval artifacts and scholarly settings to create a convincing atmosphere for some of the best stories of the supernatural ever written in English. Scholars also respond to his sureness of touch in this regard, and in the course of my lecture I pointed out that this aspect of his career involved James in hitherto unknown contact with the Morgan Library, in that
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Belle da Costa Greene, the Library's first director, not only consulted him about manuscripts in the collection but implored him to write a ghost story for her. A few paragraphs of explanation based on the lecture will provide historical background both for the individual stories presented in this collection and for the circumstances of their creation.

Pierpont Morgan began seriously collecting books and art only after the death of his father in 1890, at which time he himself was more than fifty years old. Junius Morgan had himself been a collector, who owned, among other things, the manuscript of Sir Walter Scott's novel
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