The Malice of Inanimate Objects

"The Malice of Inanimate Objects" is a short ghost story by the British author M.R. James. It is the penultimate story which M.R. James wrote and the last of his stories to be published during his lifetime. It first appeared in print in the June 1933 issue of the Eton College magazine The Masquerade. 

The story describes how a vengeful ghost uses a variety of everyday objects to take revenge on a wrongdoer.

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