- English Ghost stories, Fiction, science fiction, general, English Short stories, Ghost Stories
M. R. James is the acknowledged master of the English ghost story. Disdaining gore in favour of atmosphere and suggestion, his enduring supernatural tales are masterpieces of understated horror.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Montague Rhodes James
- First published
- December 2004
- Pages
- 155
- Publisher
- IndyPublish, Dover Publications, BiblioBazaar
- Editions
- 179
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9781070913407
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“Two men in a smoking-room were talking of their private-school days.”
Montague Rhodes James (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–18), and of Eton College (1918–36). He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–15). Though James's work as a medievalist and scholar is still highly regarded, he is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some regard as among the best in the genre. James 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, James's protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly, he is known as the
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