Canon Alberic's Scrapbook

"Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book" is a horror short story by English writer M. R. James, written in 1892 or 1893 and first published in 1895 in the National Review. It is his earliest known horror story and the first to be read aloud to the "Chitchat Society" at King's College, Cambridge, where many of his stories made their public debut. It was subsequently included in his first short story collection, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), though the malevolent entity is a demon rather than a ghost.