Booklog 61/2023: M.R James: The Tractate Middoth - Audiobook

[jacey]

This short ghost story is a classic, featuring Mr Garrett, a librarian who, while searching for a book requested by John Eldred, encounters a black-clad mouldering clergyman, so strange it causes him to pass out and be given recovery leave. On the train to the seaside he meets the Simpsons, a mother and daughter, who offer him lodgings. He learns that they are in an inheritance struggle over the missing will of a clergyman called Rant, and Garrett pieces together their story with John Eldred's search for a very particular book, and the spectre of the long-dead clergyman. Beautifully read, as might be expected, by David Suchet.