The Rose Garden (short story)

"The Rose Garden"

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

"The Rose Garden" is the second story in the second collection of ghost stories published by M. R. James, More Ghost Stories.

Synopsis

Mrs. Anstruther would like to plant a rose garden, however the clearing she wishes to use gives people nightmares, and they hear whispers by an old post in the clearing. Soon she, along with her husband, learn the history of the clearing and the injustice that took place there.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ "PART 2: More Ghost Stories". Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
↑ James, M.R. (1993). Collected ghost stories (Repr. ed.). Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth. p. 104-113. ISBN 1853260533.

External links

The full text of The Rose Garden at Wikisource
Full text of "The Rose Garden"
The Rose Garden public domain audiobook at LibriVox
A Podcast to the Curious: Episode 9 - The Rose Garden

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" "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
Adaptations	Night of the Demon A Ghost Story for Christmas

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