First published in the Dublin University Magazine (May 1839). Reprinted in Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery (1851) and The Purcell Papers, vol. ii (3 vols., 1880) and The Watcher and Other Weird Stories (1894). Text: 1851.
First published as ‘The Watcher’ in Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery (1851). Reprinted as ‘The Familiar’ in In a Glass Darkly, vol. i (3 vols., 1872) and The Watcher and Other Weird Stories (1894). Text: 1851 with names added from 1894.
First published as the second story in Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery (1851). This is the second early short form of Uncle Silas (the first being ‘Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess’, Dublin University Magazine, November 1838).
First published in the Dublin University Magazine (December 1853). Reprinted for the first time in M. R. James’s Madam Crowl’s Ghost (1923).
First published as chapters viii and ix of The House by the Churchyard, serialized in the Dublin University Magazine (1861–2) and later published in 3 vols. (1863).
First published in the Dublin University Magazine (April 1864). First reprinted in Madam Crowl’s Ghost (1923).
First published in Temple Bar (January 1868). First reprinted in Madam Crowl’s Ghost (1923).
First published in Charles Dickens’s All the Year Round (23 October–13 November 1869). Reprinted as the first tale in In a Glass Darkly (1872). Text: 1872.
First published in All the Year Round (31 December 1870). The story was later incorporated in ‘A Strange Adventure in the Life of Miss Laura Mildmay’, the first of the three stories in Chronicles of Golden Friars (1871). Reprinted as the title story of M. R. James’s selection Madam Crowl’s Ghost (1923). Text: James.
First published as ‘The Haunted House in Westminster’ in Belgravia (January 1872). Reprinted as ‘Mr Justice Harbottle’ that same year in In a Glass Darkly, vol. i. Text: Belgravia.