M.R. James
Author of Night of the Zombie (BOO!) (Volume 2)
M.R. James is M. R. James (3). For other authors named M. R. James, see the disambiguation page.
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M. R. James was born in Goodnestone, Kent, England on August 1, 1862. He was an English 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 show more literature. He began writing his ghost stories as an entertainment for his friends; he would read these stories each year at Christmas to his colleagues at King's College. The earliest of these tales include Canon Alberic's Scrap-book and Lost Hearts, both of which were later collected in his first anthology of supernatural fiction, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904). Perhaps his single greatest story is the profoundly disturbing Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad (1904). He died on June 12, 1936. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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M. R. James in Gothic Literature (July 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Mezzotint" by M.R. James in The Weird Tradition (December 2021)
M. R. James in The Weird Tradition (October 2021)
THE DEEP ONES: "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" by M.R. James in The Weird Tradition (September 2012)
M.R. James on DVD in The Weird Tradition (August 2012)
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