But there’s another author inextricably linked with the festive period – Montague Rhodes James, born in 1862 and in his grave these long 80 years. Which is perhaps somewhat curious ...

When it comes to the tradition of telling ghosts stories during Christmas, Charles Dickens still reigns supreme, with medieval scholar M.R. James in a very close second place. But in recent years ...

What Arthur Conan Doyle’s adventures of Sherlock Holmes are to the detective story, M.R. James’s tales of revenants and demons are to supernatural fiction. They remain the gold standard ...

In order to understand this televisual phenomenon, we first have to discuss the work of a writer named M.R. James. Montague Rhodes James was an author, medievalist scholar, and provost of King’s ...

I am about to place myself in the power of a master haunter, the English author and medieval scholar M. R. James (1862-1936) — a writer who can put shivers into a sunny day. Since I was a child ...

Whistle and I’ll Come to You (1968) A classic in the ghost story genre, this deeply atmospheric and unnerving production is Jonathan Miller’s adaptation of the 1904 M. R. James tale “Oh ...

translated by James D. Jenkins. The title story opens with an irresistible hook: “Two items today: (1) I’m going to talk to my wife for the first time in two years. (2) My wife is dead.

The ghost stories of M R James are so good that I hesitate to read them in a lonely room. But I’ve come across something very amusing that he wrote using his expertise as a Cambridge scholar of ...