The Fenstanton Witch
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"The Fenstanton Witch" is a short story by the English writer M. R. James. Believed to have been written in the 1920s, it was first published in the literary magazine Ghosts & Scholars in 1990. Set in
All Saints Church in Lolworth
The churchyard of Fenstanton Parish Church
M. R. James
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Montague Rhodes James was an English medievalist scholar and author who served as provost of King's College, Cambridge and of Eton College, as well as vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge. J
The Fenstanton Witch
…The Fenstanton Witch" is a short story by the English writer M. R. James. Believed to have been written in the 1920s, it was first published in the literary magazine Ghosts & Scholars in 1990. Set in Cambridgeshire in the…
M. R. James, c. 1900
M. R. James's scholarly work uncovered the burial places of the abbots of Bury St Edmunds Abbey in 1903 (from front to rear): Edmund of Walpole (1248–1256); Henry of Rushbrooke (1235–1248); Richard of the Isle of Ely (1229–1234); Samson (1182–1211); and Ording (1148–1157).
Illustration by James McBryde for M. R. James's story "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'". James was close friends with the illustrator, and the collection Ghost Stories of an Antiquary in 1904 was intended as a showcase for McBryde's artwork, but McBryde died having completed only four plates.
The Virgin Mary: page from a 15th-century book of hours from the catalogue of the Fitzwilliam Museum