Montague Rhodes James, 1862-1936
Biographical note
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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Works


Ghost Stories of an Antiquary [1904]
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Canon Alberic’s
Scrap-Book
Lost Hearts
The Mezzotint
The Ash-Tree
Number 13
Count Magnus
‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll
Come to You, My Lad’
The Treasure of Abbot
Thomas


More Ghost Stories [1911]
A School Story
The Rose Garden
The Tractate Middoth
Casting the Runes
The Stalls of Barchester
Cathedral
Martin’s Close
Mr Humphreys and His
Inheritance


A Thin Ghost and Others [1919]
The Residence at
Whitminster
The Diary of Mr. Poynter
An Episode of Cathedral
History
The Story of a Disappearance
and an Appearance
Two Doctors


A Warning to the Curious, and other ghost stories
[1925]
The Haunted Dolls' House
[The Empire Review, Feb 1923]
The Uncommon Prayer Book
[Atlantic Monthly, June 1921]
A Neighbour’s Landmark
[Eton Chronic, 1924]
A View from a Hill [London
Mercury, May 1925]
A Warning to the Curious
[London Mercury, August1925]
An Evening's
Entertainment


The Collected Ghost Stories of M.R. James [1931]
There was a Man Dwelt by a
Churchyard
Rats
After Dark in the Playing Fields
Wailing Well
The Experiment : A New
Year’s Eve Ghost Story
The Malice of Inanimate
Objects
A Vignette