Montague Rhodes James — More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (London: Edward Arnold, 1911). First Edition. An exceptionally rare and desirable first edition of More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary — the second collection of supernatural tales by Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936), the master of the English ghost story. Published in London by Edward Arnold in 1911, this volume stands as a cornerstone of twentieth-century horror literature. With this collection, following the celebrated Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), James firmly established the “antiquarian ghost story”: a genre where erudition, history, and the supernatural meet. His horrors whisper through the dust of forgotten libraries, flicker in candlelight, and emerge from manuscripts and relics better left untouched. The book gathers seven of James’s finest and most influential tales — A School Story, The Rose Garden, The Tractate Middoth, Casting the Runes, The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral, Martin’s Close, and Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance. Several of these stories went on to inspire film and television adaptations, most notably Casting the Runes, which became the classic movie Night of the Demon (1957). This first edition is extremely scarce on the market. The original print run was small, and most surviving copies are now held in institutional or private collections. Condition: a sound, complete copy, formerly in a library, with a small sticker to the upper front board and front pastedown. Minor wear to edges and corners, light surface marks and occasional foxing inside, but the text remains clean and legible throughout. A true collector’s piece — a landmark in the history of ghost fiction and a perfect acquisition for this season of shadows and candlelight. Whether for one’s own pleasure or as a gift to a connoisseur of the macabre, few books capture the spirit of Halloween more perfectly than M. R. James’s More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.