M. R. James, c. 1900
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Montague Rhodes James (1 August 1862 –12 June 1936) was an English medievalist and author whose literary reputation today is based largely on his ghost stories,[1] published in four collections.
Works are listed in order of their date of first publication in the lists shown below.
- Ghost Stories of an AntiquaryCollection of eight short stories by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1904. (1904)
- More Ghost StoriesCollection of seven short stories by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1911. (1911)
- A Thin Ghost and OthersCollection of five short stories by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1919. (1919)
- A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost StoriesCollection of six short stories by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1925. (1925)
- The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. JamesCollection of all but four of the ghost stories written by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1931. (1931)
- “A VignetteGhost story by M. R. James, first published in 1936, about a semi-autobiographical episode in James's early life.” (1936)
- The Five Jars (1922)
- Forty-Two Stories, (1930). Hans Christian Andersen stories translated by M. R. James.
- Abbeys (1925)
- Suffolk and Norfolk (1930)
- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum (1895)
- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Jesus College (1895)
- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Peterhouse (1899)
- The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Emmanuel College (1904)
- The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College (1904)
- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Pembroke College, Cambridge (1905)
- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Gonville and Caius College (1907)
- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1912)
- A Descriptive Catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum (1913)
- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of St John’s College, Cambridge (1913)
- The Biblical Antiquities of Philo (1917)
- The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts (1919)
- The Lost Apocrypha of the Old Testament (1920)
- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Library of Samuel Pepys (1923)
- Two Ancient English Scholars: St Aldhelm and William of Malmesbury (1931)
- St. George’s Chapel, Windsor: the woodwork of the choir (1933)
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Kemp, Sandra, et al. “James, M. R. [Montague Rhodes James].” The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction, Oxford University Press, 2005, https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198117605.001.0001/acref-9780198117605-e-640.