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M.R. James (I) (1862–1936)

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Born in 1862, Montague Rhodes James developed a reading habit at an early age, preferring to stay in the library than with friends. He took this with him when he went to study at Eton and then at the King's College, Cambridge, where he became assistant in classical archaeology at the Fitzwilliam museum... See full bio »

Born:

Montague Rhodes James
in Goodnestone Parsonage, Kent, UK

Died:

(age 73) in Eton, Berkshire, England, UK
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2013 The Wailing Well (short) (short story)
 
2012 Lost Hearts (short)
 
2011 Rats by M.R. James (short) (story)
 
2010 Whistle and I'll Come to You (TV movie) (short story)
 
2007 Lost Hearts (video) (short story)
 
2006 Number 13 (TV movie) (story)
 
2005 Ghost Story for Christmas: M.R. James - A View from a Hill (TV movie) (story)
 
2000 Ghost Stories for Christmas (TV mini-series)
 
1989 The Church (story "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas" - uncredited)
 
1979 ITV Playhouse (TV series)
– Casting the Runes (1979) (from a story by)
 
1975 The Ash Tree (TV short) (story / book "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" / as Montague Rhodes James)
 
1974 The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (TV movie) (story / book "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" / as Montague Rhodes James)
 
1973 Lost Hearts (TV movie) (story / book "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" / as Montague Rhodes James)
 
1972 A Warning to the Curious (TV movie) (story)
 
1971 The Stalls of Barchester (TV movie) (story "The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral" / book "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" / as Montague Rhodes James)
 
1968 Omnibus (TV series documentary)
– Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968) (story "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad")
 
1966-1968 Mystery and Imagination (TV series)
– Casting the Runes (1968) (story)
– Room 13 (1966) (story "Number 13")
– Lost Hearts (1966) (story)
– The Tractate Middoth (1966) (story)
 
1957 Curse of the Demon (story "Casting the Runes" / as Montague R. James)
 
1951 Lights Out (TV series)
– The Lost Will of Dr. Rant (1951) (story "The Tractate Middoth")
 
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(1989) Book: "A Warning to the Curious: the Ghost Stories of M. R. James" See more »

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Alternate Names:

Montague R. James | Montague Rhodes James
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English Apocryphal scholar and academic. Occasional writer of ghost stories, often on historical themes. See more »

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