ghost stories of an antiquary by mr james

Perkins decides that the best way to answer that question is to whistle for him, and that is exactly what he does. On his way back from playing golf, he explores a strip of the beach which was the site of a Templars' preceptory, and he discovers a bronze whistle inscribed with the words 'Quis est iste qui uenit' ('Who is this who is coming?').

Perkins, Professor of Ontography at St James's College, takes a trip to Burnstow and stays at the Globe Inn. 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' is probably the most well known of James' tales the BBC made an adaptation of it, starring John Hurt, in 2010. and into a terrifying chase from Sweden back to rural England. Wraxall's interest is aroused by the innkeeper's words, but his overly inquisitive nature leads him into trouble. He gains permission to examine an important collection of documents at Råbäck, a manor house in Vestergothland, which was built in the seventeenth century by Count Magnus De la Gardie, a rather brutal nobleman who, according to a local innkeeper, 'had been on the Black Pilgrimage, and had brought something or someone back with him'. 'Count Magnus' is set in 1863 and tells the story of Mr Wraxall, a man past middle age, of private means, and near being a Fellow of his college at Oxford, who goes on an expedition to Sweden with the intention of writing a guidebook.

Ghost stories of an antiquary by mr james