Count Magnus

"Count Magnus"
"Count Magnus"
Short story by M.R. James
	Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Country	England
Language	English
Genre(s)	Horror short story
Publication

"Count Magnus" is the sixth story in the first collection of ghost stories published by M. R. James, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.

Synopsis

A traveler in Sweden stumbles upon the history of a mysterious and ominous figure, Count Magnus.^[1]

^ James, M.R. (1993). Collected ghost stories (Repr. ed.). Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth. p. 54-64. ISBN 1853260533.

v t e Works by M. R. James
Short stories	"Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book" "Lost Hearts" "The Mezzotint" "The Ash-tree" "Number 13" "Count Magnus" "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'" "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas" "A School Story" "The Rose Garden" "The Tractate Middoth" "Casting the Runes" "The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral" "Martin's Close" "Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance" "The Haunted Dolls' House" "A View from a Hill" "A Warning to the Curious" "A Vignette"
Collections	Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) More Ghost Stories (1911) A Thin Ghost and Others (1919) A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925) The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James (1931)
Adaptations	Night of the Demon (1957) Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968) A Ghost Story for Christmas (1971–present)