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Montague Rhodes James

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 originator of the "antiquarian ghost story".

Source: M. R. James on Wikipedia.

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20th century British author, medievalist scholar and provost (1862–1936)

Born 1 Aug 1862
Died 12 Jun 1936

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20th century British author, medievalist scholar and provost (1862–1936)

Born 1 Aug 1862
Died 12 Jun 1936

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English Ghost stories Fiction Manuscripts Fiction, ghost Fiction, short stories (single author) Ghost stories Manuscripts, catalogs Catalogs Great britain, antiquities Horror tales Fiction, horror Illumination of books and manuscripts short stories American Horror tales Children's fiction Short stories Horror stories Bible History Horror short story American literature Specimens horror Bowhunting

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Great Britain England London Cambridge New England Ely Eton College Jamaica Massachusetts North America Norwich Salem Village Toledo Alabama Baker Street Bury Saint Edmunds (England) Calcutta Cambridge (England) Carcosa Dublin Eng Wells Falmouth Germany (West) Illinois India

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M. R. James (1862-1936) John H. Watson Sherlock Holmes Aldhelm Saint (640?-709) Billy Weaver Carlos Christopher Mulholland Devil Faith Brown Father Time Goodman Brown Goody Cloyse Gregory W. Temple Hugh Morgan Matthew Parker (1504-1575) William Harker A. Hamilton Thompson (1873-1952) Alban Saint (-304?) Archie Berenice Bill Hutchinson Booth Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Colonel Sartoris Duncan Ross

Time

Medieval 1600s 400-1400 To 400 1861-65 1880 - 1912 1889 1890 19th century 20th century 400-1450 Antebellum era Jusqu'à 400 carnival

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