Author:Montague Rhodes James

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Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936)

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British medieval scholar; Provost of King's College, Cambridge; best remembered today for his ghost stories

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This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement.
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "M. R. J."

Montague Rhodes James

Works

Ghost story anthologies

• Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904)
  • Canon Alberic's Scrapbook
  • Lost Hearts
  • The Mezzotint
  • The Ash-tree
  • Number 13
  • Count Magnus
  • 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You My Lad'
  • The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

• More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911)
  • A School Story
  • The Rose Garden
  • The Tractate Middoth
  • Casting the Runes
  • The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
  • Martin's Close
  • Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance

• A Thin Ghost and Others (1919) (external scan)
  • The Residence at Whitminster
  • The Diary of Mr. Poynter
  • An Episode of Cathedral History
  • The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance
  • Two Doctors

• A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (hosted at Wikilivres) (1925)
  • The Haunted Dolls' House (hosted at Wikilivres)
  • The Uncommon Prayer-book (hosted at Wikilivres)
  • A Neighbour's Landmark (hosted at Wikilivres)
  • A View From a Hill (hosted at Wikilivres)
  • A Warning to the Curious (hosted at Wikilivres)
  • An Evening's Entertainment (hosted at Wikilivres)

Other short stories

• There Was A Man Dwelt By a Churchyard (hosted at Wikilivres) (1924)
• Wailing Well (hosted at Wikilivres) (1928)
• Rats (hosted at Wikilivres) (1929)
• The Experiment (hosted at Wikilivres) (1931)
• The Malice of Inanimate Objects (hosted at Wikilivres) (1933)
• A Vignette (hosted at Wikilivres) (1936)

Novellas

• The Five Jars – Copyrighted in the United States until 2021

Non-fiction

• The Lost Apocrypha of the Old Testament, 1920.
• The Apocryphal New Testament – Copyrighted in the United States until 2020, and from this:
  • Acts of Paul (hosted at Wikilivres)
  • Acts of Pilate (hosted at Wikilivres)
  • Correspondence of Paul and Seneca (hosted at Wikilivres)
  • Epistle to the Laodiceans (hosted at Wikilivres)
  • Infancy Gospel of Thomas (hosted at Wikilivres)
  • Infancy Gospel of Thomas (hosted at Wikilivres)
  • Infancy Gospel of Thomas (hosted at Wikilivres)
  • Report of Pilate to the Emperor Claudius (hosted at Wikilivres)
• (ed.) De Nugis Curialium (1914)

Contributions to the DNB, 2nd supplement

• Austen Leigh, Augustus
• Clark, John Willis
• Headlam, Walter George