“A View from a Hill” is a short ghost story by M.R. James, first published in 1925. In June, an academic named Fanshawe travels to the English countryside to spend his summer vacation at the home of his friend Squire Henry Richards.

Fanshawe finds a couple of binoculars, made by a man who died in mysterious circumstances some years earlier. Through the binoculars, Fanshawe is able to see objects which no longer exist.