A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge University Press, 1895. Reissued by the publisher, 2009. ISBN 978-1-108-00396-4 Blakman, J., James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)., Rogers, B. (1919). Henry the Sixth: a reprint of John Blacman's memoir. Cambridge [Eng.]: The University Press. Ghost stories [ edit ] Illustration by James McBryde for M. R. James's story " 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' ". James was close friends with the illustrator, and the collection Ghost Stories of an Antiquary in 1904 was intended as a showcase for McBryde's artwork, but McBryde died having completed only four plates.

In Count Magnus, Jason Watkins (W1A, The Crown) plays Mr Wraxhall, an inquisitive character who becomes fascinated by the long-dead founder of a Swedish family and discovers that the dreaded aristocrat may not lie easy in his tomb. Lists of manuscripts formerly in Peterborough Abbey library: with preface and identifications. Oxford University Press, 1926. Reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-108-01135-8 Wagenknecht, Edward. Seven Masters of Supernatural Fiction. Greenwood Press, 1991. ISBN 0-313-27960-8. The composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji wrote two pieces for piano with a link to James: Quaere reliqua hujus materiei inter secretiora (1940), inspired by "Count Magnus", and St. Bertrand de Comminges: "He was laughing in the tower" (1941), inspired by "Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book". Telling a good horror story is a bit like telling a good joke. It depends on the audience sharing certain assumptions, and it doesn't carry well across time. Which is a roundabout way of admitting heresy: I was not particularly frightened by the ghost stories of the grandfather of horror, M. R. James. Not even creeped out really, certainly not up late at night nervously imagining the cause of that creaky noise. Which isn't to say that they aren't good. In fact, they are just as excellent as everyone says they are. It's simply that I find myself admiring them structurally, a ghost story has to be well constructed just like a good joke, and of course once you start admiring the craftsmanship then you can't get into the spirit of the thing at all.

I admire and constantly reread James, Dunsany and Hearn....I wish I wrote things as well as James did.". Wellman interviewed in Jeffrey M. Elliot, Fantasy Voices: Interviews with American Fantasy Writers. Borgo Press, San Bernardino. 1982 ISSN 0271-7808 El caso del maestro (nunca mejor dicho) Montague Rhodes James es dentro del género del horror igual al de Ramón del Campoamor en Poesía. Rara avis en su campo literario, ambos de buena cuna y desconocedores de traumas, desolaciones o vidas previas abocadas a la desdicha. Poseían un don natural que no afloraba por sus precedentes vitales (o ayudaba a ello). a b Langford, David (1998). "James, Montague Rhodes". In Pringle, David, ed., St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic Writers. London: St. James Press. ISBN 1558622063 Paxton explains that he has some interest in the architecture of medieval churches, whilst visiting one such place he learns of a local legend about a buried Anglo-Saxon crown that protects the country from invasion; linked to this are a deceased family, called Ager, who were sworn to guard the crown.

Descriptive Catalogues of the Manuscripts in the Libraries of Some Cambridge Colleges. Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-108-00258-5 The Malice of Inanimate Objects", in The Masquerade (Eton ephemeral magazine), no. 1 (June 1933), pp.29–32 He catalogued many of the manuscript libraries of the colleges of the University of Cambridge. Among his other scholarly works, he wrote The Apocalypse in Art, which placed the English Apocalypse manuscripts into families. He also translated the New Testament apocrypha and contributed to the Encyclopaedia Biblica (1903). His ability to wear his learning lightly is apparent in his Suffolk and Norfolk (Dent, 1930), in which a great deal of knowledge is presented in a popular and accessible form, and in Abbeys. [16] The Turn of the Screw (1898), a novella by Henry James (no relation to M. R. James), was adapted as a feature-length drama by Sandy Welch and broadcast on BBC One on 30 December 2009. [56] Title He also achieved a great deal during his directorship of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (1893–1908). He managed to secure a large number of important paintings and manuscripts, including notable portraits by Titian.H. Russell Wakefield's story " 'He Cometh and He Passeth By! '" (1928) is a homage to James's "Casting the Runes". [39] In 1972, the story was adapted as ‘’ A Warning to the Curious’’ by Lawrence Gordon Clark as the second instalment of the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas strand. [2] As with the previous instalment, it was first broadcast on BBC 1 at 11pm on Christmas Eve 1972. [3] a b c d e Jones, Darryl (2011). "Introduction". Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. xii. ISBN 978-019-956884-0 a b c d e f g h D'Amico, John (12 February 2014). "An Interview with Lawrence Gordon Clark, Master of Ghostly Horror". Smug Horror. Rory Kinnear, Robert Bathurst, Frances Barber, John Hopkins, Emma Cunniffe, Nikesh Patel, Tommaso Di Vincenzo