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• Book review: Collected Ghost Stories by MR James

  Stephanie Merritt has some rational praise for MR James's classic tales of the supernatural

• Apocalypse then

  As John Martin's visions of Armageddon go on show at Tate Britain, Aaron Rosen argues that they are powerful because they're genuinely scary

• Never let me go

  Laurie Taylor finds it hard to say goodbye

• A match made in heaven

  As the new football season kicks off, West Ham fan Sam Delaney has a crisis of faith

• I am bovvered

  White trash, vermin, underclass, broken Britain. When Owen Jones published his book Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class, he wasn’t expecting such an onslaught

• Briefing: Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People

  Adam Rutherford remembers getting atheists reciting the Lord's Prayer at last year's rationalist jamboree

• Book review: Ragnarok – The End of the Gods

  Philip Womack is chilled by AS Byatt's magnificent retelling of the Norse myth

• Repeat offender: New Humanist interviews Ricky Gervais

  Ricky Gervais on his new shows, shock comedy and why God loves him really

• Quiz: Come on, you've urn-ed it

  It's pot luck for bankers' bonuses with New Humanist quizmaster Chris Maslanka

• Book review: The Matter With Us by John Rawles

  Richard Norman explores the matter of the human predicament