"A School Story" is a ghost story by British writer M. R. James, first published in his 1911 collection More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. Two men are discussing the folklore of the private schools they attended. One, who attended a school near London around 1870, tells of a Latin teacher named Mr. Sampson who kept an engraved Byzantine coin from Constantinople that he would show his students. During a Latin grammar exercise, the narrator's friend, McLeod, gives the teacher a strange message in Latin which translates to "remember the well among the four yews", though he doesn't know why he wrote it. Mr. Sampson appears confused and unnerved by the message. Following the incident, McLeod is taken ill.
Adaptations (1)
A School Story was adapted into a 1957 film.
Night of the Demon1957 · film · 96 min · dir. Jacques Tourneur · IMDb ↗IMDb7.4100%American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.
