- Ghost stories, English ghost stories, Horror stories, Ghosts
Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, James's stories draw on the terrors of the everyday. Documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and night-time settings where imagination runs riot.
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- Author
- Montague Rhodes James
- First published
- 1931
- Pages
- 418
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd, Palgrave Macmillan, E. Arnold
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9788477022138
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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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