Martin's Close

"Martin's Close"
Author	M.R. James
Country	England
Language	English
Genre(s)	Horror short story

"Martin's Close" is the sixth story in the second collection of ghost stories published by M. R. James, More Ghost Stories.

Synopsis

The story takes place in court, squire Martin has been accused of murdering a young girl named Ann Clark that he had been having a one-sided romance with. The prosecution presents a case that Martin murdered the Ann Clark, because she ruined a good marriage proposal for him. During the trial an event is described in which Martin acted in a guilty manner when confronted with a possible apparition of the girl. In the end Martin is found guilty of the crime, despite his attempt to have the case dismissed on a legal technicality, he is sentenced to death.^[1]

References

External links

• Full Text of "Martin's Close"
• A Podcast to the Curious: Episode 14 - Martin's Close

Works of 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" "A View from a Hill" "A Warning to the Curious" Collections Ghost Stories of an Antiquary More Ghost Stories A Thin Ghost and Others A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James Adaptions Night of the Demon Drag Me to Hell A Ghost Story for Christmas