M.R. James

Birthday:

08/01/1862

Place of birth:

Dover, Kent, England:

Biography:

Montague Rhodes James OM FBA 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 (1913–15). James is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some consider among the best in the genre. He redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. However, his protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story".



Credits

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint (2021)
Short Story
Martin's Close (2019)
Short Story
The Tractate Middoth (2013)
Short Story
Whistle and I'll Come to You (2010)
Short Story
Lost Hearts (2007)
Short Story
Number 13 (2006)
Short Story
A View from a Hill (2005)
Short Story
Casting the Runes (1979)
Short Story
Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance (1976)
Short Story
The Ash Tree (1975)
Short Story
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974)
Short Story
Lost Hearts (1973)
Short Story
A Warning to the Curious (1972)
Short Story
The Stalls of Barchester (1971)
Short Story
Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968)
Short Story
Night of the Demon (1957)
Short Story
Whistle and I'll Come to You! (1956)
Short Story