On Christmas Day 1987, The Teeth of Abbot Thomas, a James parody by Stephen Sheridan, was broadcast on Radio 4. And in this story, a scholar of medieval history (so far, so quintessential James) recounts how he found a series of clues which led him to hidden treasure: gold which belonged to an abbot.

In his screenplay for The Signalman Andrew Davies adds scenes of the traveller's nightmare-plagued nights at an inn, and reinforces the ambiguity of the traveller-narrator by restructuring the ending and matching his facial features with those of the spectre. The guests watch in horror as countless large, venomous spiders crawl out of the hollow on fire, dying on the grass. It certainly adds to the plausibility of the stories, however, and their wide and enduring popularity. The typical James ghost story kicks off when someone discovers an old manuscript or a valuable or rare book, often with a religious connection or theme.Some of the standouts are “The Ash Tree”, “Casting The Runes”, “The Mezzotint”, and “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”. Another renowned fan of James in the horror and fantasy genre was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote an essay on him. For example, in "Lost Hearts", pubescent children are taken in by a sinister dabbler in the occult who cuts their hearts from their still-living bodies. James's ghost stories were published in a series of collections: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919), and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925). Arguably the most haunted part of Britain, the New Forest is filled with more ghostly happenings and undead apparitions than we could hope to cover here.

The only evidence of her witchcraft are eyewitness accounts by Sir Matthew Fell, the owner of a local seat named Castringham.His story “Two Doctors” doesn’t really compare with stories such as “’Oh Whistle’”, “The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral”, “Casting the Runes” or “Lost Hearts”. Let us, then, be introduced to the actors in a placid way; let us see them going about their ordinary business, undisturbed by forebodings, pleased with their surroundings; and into this calm environment let the ominous thing put out its head, unobtrusively at first, and then more insistently, until it holds the stage. Bertrand de Comminges: "He was laughing in the tower" (1941), inspired by "Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book". In 2013, the Fan Museum in London hosted two performances of The Laws of Shadows, a play by Adrian Drew about M.