A warning to the curious and other ghost stories

<p>Montague Rhodes James OM MA (1 August 1862 - 12 June 1936) who used the publication name M. R. James was an English mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College Cambridge (1905-1918) and of Eton College (1918-1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are regarded as among the best in the genre. James redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. However James's protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly he is known as the originator of the antiquarian ghost story. (wikipedia.org)</p>