Montague Rhodes James
Author · 1862–1936

Montague Rhodes James

Montague Rhodes James was a 20th century British author, medievalist scholar and provost (1862–1936). Born in Dover.

Our catalogue lists 7 books by Montague Rhodes James, mostly ghost story, horror and Victorian science fiction. They span 1904 to 2005. The most-read is Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904). 2 titles are free to read on Project Gutenberg, and 2 have free LibriVox audiobooks.

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Biography

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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._R._James) on Wikipedia.

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