Casting the Runes (1911) [Short Story]
by M. R. James
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Summary
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How does self-styled alchemist and author of "The History of Witchcraft" Mr. Karswell kill by 'Casting the Runes'? Mr. Dunning believes he will be the next victim, and so hatches a plan with Mr. Harrington, brother of the last victim, to turn the tables on Karswell.
Originally published in More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, 1911.
Original title: Casting the Runes
Original languages:
English
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Genre: Fiction→ Horror→ Satanism, Demonology, and Black Magic
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Ghost Stories (1931) [Collection]
Author: M. R. James
Edward Gorey's Haunted Looking Glass (1959) [Anthology]
Authors: M. R. James
, Bram Stoker
, Charles Dickens
, Edith Nesbit
, Algernon Blackwood
, Wilkie Collins
, Robert Louis Stevenson
, W. F. Harvey
, W. W. Jacobs
, R.H. Malden
, Tom Hood
, L. P. Hartley
Treasury of the Fantastic, the (2001) [Anthology]
Authors: Lewis Carroll
, M. R. James
, Edgar Allan Poe
, Rudyard Kipling
, Emily Dickinson
, Ambrose Bierce
, George Gordon Byron
, E. M. Forster
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
, Henry James
, John Keats
, Edith Nesbit
, Mary Shelley
, Alfred Tennyson
, Mark Twain
, H. G. Wells
, Edith Wharton
, Oscar Wilde
, Virginia Woolf
, William Butler Yeats
, Lord Dunsany
, Algernon Blackwood
, Robert W. Chambers
, Kenneth Grahame
, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
, Robert Louis Stevenson
, Washington Irving
, A.E. Housman
, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
, W. W. Jacobs
, James Hogg
, George MacDonald
, Laurence Housman
, Frank R. Stockton
, Walter de la Mare
, Christina Rossetti
, Lucy Lane Clifford
, Max Beerbohm
, Juliana Horatia Ewing
, Kenneth Morris
, Margaret Oliphant
, William Austin
, Edward Lear
, Richard Middleton
, I. A. Ireland
Wordsworth Book of Horror Stories, the (2004) [Anthology]
Authors: M. R. James
, Bram Stoker
, Edgar Allan Poe
, Rudyard Kipling
, Charles Dickens
, Ambrose Bierce
, Arthur Conan Doyle
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
, Henry James
, D. H. Lawrence
, Edith Nesbit
, Alexander Pushkin
, Walter Scott
, Oscar Wilde
, Wilkie Collins
, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
, Robert Louis Stevenson
, Honoré de Balzac
, William Makepeace Thackeray
, Guy de Maupassant
, W. F. Harvey
, Saki
, W. W. Jacobs
, James Hogg
, Hugh Walpole
, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, Edward Bulwer-Lytton
, Perceval Landon
, Richard Harris Barham
, Amelia B. Edwards
, Violet Hunt
, Claude Askew
, Alice Askew
, R. S. Hawker
, John Lang
, Howard Pease
Notes:
- This story was made into a movie entitled "Curse of the Demon"
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