M.R. James (01-08-1862, Dover, Kent, England)

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".

• Count Magnus
  2022

• A Ghost Story for Christmas: The...
  2021
• Martin's Close
  2019
• The Tractate Middoth
  2013

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• Whistle and I'll Come to You
  2010
• Lost Hearts
  2007
• Number 13
  2006
• A View from a Hill
  2005
• Casting the Runes
  1979
• Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance
  1976
• The Ash Tree
  1975
• The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
  1974
• Lost Hearts
  1973
• A Warning to the Curious
  1972
• The Stalls of Barchester
  1971
• Whistle and I'll Come to You
  1968
• La notte del demonio
  1957

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• Whistle and I'll Come to You!
  1956