"At first you saw only a mass of coarse matted black hair; presently it was seen that this covered a body of fearful thinness almost a skeleton but with the muscles standing out like wires."

M.R. James' ghost stories are brimming with delicate horror. They take place in the quiet corners of churches and between the dusty shelves of esteemed college libraries. But when Professor Parkin discovers a whistle in a Templar ruin or Sir Richard Fell inherits a country manor with a horrifying history malevolent forces are unleashed. Something half-glimpsed something not of this world is preparing to disturb the silence.