Lost Hearts

"Lost Hearts"
Short story by M.R. James
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Horror
Publication
Publication date1895
Sculpture of Mithras sacrificing the bull, of the type described as having been brought from the Levant to Aswarby by Mr. Abney
Biblical magician Simon Magus whom Mr. Abney describes as having acquired magical powers through the sacrifice of a boy
Hermes Trismegistus, the Alchemical magus to whom Mr. Abney attributes the magical ritual of 'absorbing' the calcined hearts of three children, in order to obtain occult powers

"Lost Hearts" is a ghost story by British writer M. R. James, originally published in 1895. It was later collected in his 1904 book Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.