The Collected Ghost Stories -- The Diary of Mr. Poynter
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| Title: | The Collected Ghost Stories -- The Diary of Mr. Poynter | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1919 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Longmans, Green | ||||||||||
| Tags: | fiction, juvenile, supernatural | ||||||||||
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| Downloads: | 186 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 6  |
Author Bio for James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)
Montague Rhodes James OM FBA (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936), who used the publication name M. R. James, was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–18), and of Eton College (1918–36).
Though James's work as a medievalist is still highly regarded, he is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded 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".
James's ghost stories were published in a series of collections: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919), and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925). The first hardback collected edition appeared in 1931. Many of the tales were written as Christmas Eve entertainments and read aloud to friends. This idea was used by the BBC in 2000 when they filmed Christopher Lee reading James's stories in a candle-lit room in King's College.--Wikipedia.
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