M. R. James, Britain's greatest writer of ghost stories, is summoned by the Warden of Old College to investigate the inscription on an ancient stone mirror. But he finds himself drawn into a dark maze of secrets, including one from his own guilty past.
Oxford, 1665
At a time when established orthodoxies are being challenged by the new science, Warden Woodward of Old College has acquired the same mirror. He soon suspects conspiracy and witchcraft in a city besieged by plague.
Assailed by devastating visions, caught between fears of an ancient curse and the World...
Oxford, 1935
M. R. James, Britain's greatest writer of ghost stories, is summoned by the Warden of Old College to investigate the inscription on a...