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Genre. Horror. ghost stories. Montague Rhodes James OM FBA (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936). He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–1915).
In M. R. James’s ghost stories, objects are usually the link between the present and some horrifying past. And in this story, a scholar of medieval history (so far, so quintessential James) recounts how he found a series of clues which led him to hidden treasure: gold which belonged to an abbot.
Oct 31, 2016 · Many people regard M. R. James (1862-1936) as the finest writer of ghost stories in the English language. How did he come to write such highly regarded tales? In this post we offer a very short biography of M. R. James, focusing on the most curious or eye-catching aspects of his life.
More than 80 years after his death, M.R. James still has a massive following. In fact, a whole academic industry has grown up around his work, with modern-day literary scholars searching for – and finding – deeper meaning in his ghost stories.
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- June 12, 1936
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- Collected Ghost Stories.
- Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James, E.F. Bleiler (introduction), James McBride (illustrator)
- Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories by M.R. James, S.T. Joshi (Introduction)
- The Conception of Terror: Tales Inspired by M.R. James, Volume 1 by M.R. James, Stephen Gallagher (Goodreads Author), A.K. Benedict.
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The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James is an omnibus collection of ghost stories by English author M. R. James', published in 1931, bringing together all but four of his ghost stories (which had yet to be published).
Feb 5, 2012 · Anthony Lane on the British author M. R. James, whose eerie, unsettling short stories rival the work of better-known horror writers.
