M. R. James, c. 1900
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Source: Wikimedia Commons
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)
- “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.