Darryl Jones's other publications include Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film (London: Arnold; New York: OUP, 2002).
In his introduction to the 2013 Oxford World Classics edition of MR James's Collected Ghost Stories, Darryl Jones cites the story Casting The Runes, in which a Mr Dunning, lying in bed in the dark, gropes for matches under his pillow. Teddy Jamieson, Sunday Herald (Glasgow) They are classics of the genre. He had a brilliant skill for unsettling you and you wake up panting in the night Reverand Richard Coles, Daily Express