Lost Hearts

"Lost Hearts"
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Author	M.R. James
Country	England
Language	English
Genre(s)	Horror short story

"Lost Hearts" is a ghost story by M. R. James, found in his 1904 book Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.

Synopsis

The tale tells the story of Stephen, a young orphan boy, who is sent to stay with his much older cousin at a remote country mansion. His cousin is a reclusive alchemist obsessed with making himself immortal. Stephen is repeatedly troubled by visions of a young gypsy girl and a traveling Italian boy with their hearts missing.

Adaptations

"Lost Hearts"
A Ghost Story for Christmas episode
Title screen, depicting the fog in which the carriage carrying young Stephen arrives
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 3
Directed by	Lawrence Gordon Clark
Written by	M. R. James (story) Robin Chapman (adaptation)
Original air date	25 December 1973

The story was first adapted for television by ABC and broadcast by ITV on March 5, 1966 as an episode of the Mystery and Imagination series. However, no archive recordings of this episode are known to exist.

Lost Hearts was adapted by Robin Chapman in 1973 as part of the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas strand, directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. The shortest of the adaptations, it was first broadcast on Christmas Day 1973 at 11:35 pm.^[1] It starred Simon Gipps-Kent as Stephen and Joseph O'Conor as the cousin. The adaptation is noted for the distinctive hurdy-gurdy music that accompanies appearances of the two ghostly children. Ralph Vaughan Williams's English Folk Song Suite is also featured.

References

↑ "Lost Hearts". British Film Institute Database. Retrieved 22 August 2010.

External links

The full text of Lost Hearts at Wikisource
Lost Hearts public domain audiobook at LibriVox
Lost Hearts at the Internet Movie Database
Ghost Stories at the BFI's Screenonline

Works by M. R. James

Short stories	"Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book" "Lost Hearts" "The Mezzotint" "The Ash-tree" " Number 13" "Count Magnus" "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'" "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas" "A School Story" " The Rose Garden" "The Tractate Middoth" "Casting the Runes" "The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral" "Martin's Close" "Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance" "A View from a Hill" "A Warning to the Curious"

Collections	Ghost Stories of an Antiquary More Ghost Stories A Thin Ghost and Others A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James

Adaptations	Night of the Demon A Ghost Story for Christmas

A Ghost Story for Christmas

The Stalls of Barchester (1971) A Warning to the Curious (1972) Lost Hearts (1973) The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974) The Ash-tree (1975) The Signalman (1976) Stigma (1977) The Ice House (1978) A View from a Hill (2005) Number 13 (2006) Whistle and I'll Come to You (2010) The Tractate Middoth (2013)

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