M.R. James

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born

August 01, 1862 in Kent, England, The United Kingdom

died

June 12, 1936

gender

male

genre

Short Stories, Mystery & Thrillers

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Montague Rhodes James, who used the publication name M. R. James, was a noted British mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918) and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature. One of James' most important achievements was to redefine the ghost story for the new century by dispensing with many of the formal Gothic trappings of his predecessors, and replacing them with more realistic contemporary settings.

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Average rating: 4.11 · 3,859 ratings · 448 reviews · 74 distinct works

	Collected Ghost Stories 4.21 avg rating — 852 ratings — published 1931 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories, Volume 1 by M.R. James, S.T. Joshi, M. R. James 4.35 avg rating — 273 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James, Everett F. Bleiler (introduction), James McBride (illustrator) 4.24 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 124 — 61 editions	My rating:
	Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories by M.R. James, Michael Cox (Editor) 4.30 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Haunted Dolls' House and Other Ghost Stories, Volume 2 by M.R. James, S.T. Joshi, M. R. James 4.11 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Ghost Stories 3.88 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 1908 — 3 editions	My rating:
	More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary 4.29 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1916 — 29 editions	My rating:
	Complete Ghost Stories by M.R. James, M. R. James 4.31 avg rating — 55 ratings — 13 editions	My rating:
	A Pleasing Terror: The Complete Supernatural Writings by M.R. James, Christopher Roden, Barbara Roden 4.70 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A Warning to the Curious Ghost Stories by M.R. James, Ruth Rendell (Introduction) 4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1925 — 7 editions	My rating:

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“...his girl was on the tentacles of expectation about it.

(From Mr. Humphreys and his Inheritance)”
― M.R. James, More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

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“The door was opening again. The seer does not like to dwell upon what he saw
entering the room: he says it might be described as a frog - the size of a man - but it had scanty white hair about its head. It was busy about the truckle-beds, but not for long. The sound of cries - faint, as if coming out of a vast distance - but, even so, infinitely appalling, reached the ear. ("The Haunted Doll's House")”
― M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories

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