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The Locked Room

and

Other Horror Stories

M.R. James

Louise Greenwood and Carolyn Jones

drew the pictures

Level 4

Retold by Piers Sandford

Series Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter

Pearson Education Limited

Edinburgh Gate, Harlow,

Essex CM20 2JE, England

and Associated Companies throughout the world.

ISBN 0 582 41807 0

‘The Ash-Tree’, ‘A School Story’, The Diary of Mr Poynter’

(“The Curtains’), ‘An Evening’s Entertainment’ (The Flies’), ‘Rats’

(‘The Locked Room’), ‘The Mezzotint’ (‘The Painting of—ngley Hall’), ‘Lost Hearts’,

‘Martin’s Close’ (‘Martin’s Lake’). and The Tractate Middoth’ (‘The Two Cousins’).

first published by Edward Arnold 1931

The adaptation first published by Penguin Books 1993

Published by Addison Wesley Longman Limited and Penguin Books Ltd. 1998

New edition first published 1999

Second impression 2000

The moral right of the adapters and of the illustrator has been asserted

Typeset by Digital Type, London

Set in 11/14pt Bembo

Printed in Spain by Mateu Cromo, S.A. Pinto {Madrid)

in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means,

electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the

prior written permission of the Publishers.

Published by Pearson Education Limited in association with

Penguin Books Ltd, both companies being subsidiaries of Pearson Plc

For a complete list of the titles available in the Penguin Readers series please write to your local

Pearson Education office or to: Marketing Department, Penguin Longman Publishing,

5 Bentinck Street, London W1M 5RN.

Contents

page

Introduction v

Chapter 1 The Ash-Tree 1

Chapter 2 A School Story 8

Chapter 3 The Curtains 13

Chapter 4 The Flies 18

Chapter 5 The Locked Room 22

Chapter 6 The Painting of —ngley Hall 28

Chapter 7 Lost Hearts 34

Chapter 8 Martin’s Lake 42

Chapter 9 The Two Cousins 46

Activities 55

Introduction

He jumped and screamed and, as he did, the face of the thing came up

towards him: no eyes, no nose, no mouth. He screamed again and

rushed to the door. He felt the thing touch his back and start to tear

at his shirt...

Things ... things in the night, things in the house, screaming,

running, staring ... In these stories there are things that are worse

than your worst dreams.

Giant black spiders living in a tree. The terrible ghost that

waits outside a window. Empty clothes that walk. The strange

thin woman who moves through a man’s picture. The boy with

the long, dirty fingernails - and a hole in his chest. The woman

who screams from the bottom of a lake. And the dry dusty old

man who reads - but has no eyes!

Here are nine stories like no others you have read.

Montague Rhodes James was born in 1862 in a village in Kent,

in the south of England, where his father was a vicar. From an

early age. he loved old books and studied history, the Bible,

languages and the books of past centuries at Cambridge

University. He studied, lived and worked at the University from

1882 to 1918.

He began to write ghost and horror stories after reading the

stories of Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu. From the early 1890s, he

read one of his own stories to friends at Christmas every year. His

great knowledge of history gave his stories an unusual amount of

detail and his ghosts seem more real, and are more frightening,

than those of almost any other writer.

M. R. James died in 1936.

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