It is a winter's evening in the historic university town of Cambridge at the end of the nineteenth century. In college rooms, a group of friends gathers. A fire flickers in the grate and, silently, Montague Rhodes James places a lighted candle by his chair, shuffles his papers, and begins to read... So the classic ghost stories of M. R. James were presented to the world. Now, in this definitive 4-part recording, are collected all of James's published tales of 'pleasing terror'.

The 13 stories featured in Voume Four are: The Haunted Dolls' House; There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard; After Dark in the PlayingFields; The Fenstanton Witch; A Neighbour's Landmark; A View From a Hill; A Warning to the Curious; An Evening's Entertainment; Wailing Well; Rats; The Experiment; The Malice of Inanimate Objects; A Vignette.