Lost Hearts (1904) [Short Story]
by M. R. James
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Summary
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Why has Mr. Abney, owner of Aswarby Hall and acknowledged expert in pagan beliefs, invited his young orphaned cousin, Stephen Elliot, to stay with him? And what happened to the two previous children he took in?
First published in Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904)
Reprinted in:
- Ghost Stories (1931)
- Specter! (1982)
- Young Ghosts (1985)
Original title: Lost Hearts
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Horror→ Ghosts
This work is a subwork of the following works : Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) [Collection] Author: M. R. James
Ghost Stories (1931) [Collection] Author: M. R. James
Specter! (1982) [Anthology] Authors: M. R. James
, Bram Stoker
, Edgar Allan Poe
, Charles Dickens
, Oscar Wilde
, Barry N. Malzberg
, Joe R. Lansdale
, August Derleth
, Robert Bloch
, Joyce Carol Oates
, Bill Pronzini
, O. Henry
, Marcia Muller
, Jon L. Breen
, W. F. Harvey
, Oliver Onions
Young Ghosts (1985) [Anthology] Authors: M. R. James
, Ray Bradbury
, Ellen Glasgow
, Richard Matheson
, Madeleine L'Engle
, Edward Page Mitchell
, Arthur Quiller-Couch
, Howard Goldsmith
, Edward Lucas White
, Richard Middleton
, Anne Serling
, H.F. Brinsmead
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
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