M. R. James

Person · Open Library

Born

1 Aug 1862

Died

12 Jun 1936

Works

256

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Writing · Dover, Kent, England

Montague Rhodes James OM FBA was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936). He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–15). James is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some consider among the best in the genre. He redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the…

Known for

• M.R. James: Supernatural Storyteller — Self2004

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Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1862

Active to

1936

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Montague Rhodes James, OM, MA, (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936), who used the publication name M. R. James, was a British 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 widely regarded as among the finest in English literature. One of James' most important achievements was to redefine the ghost story for the new century by dispensing with many of the formal gothic trappings of his predece

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

   · 2021 · cited 85,040x

2. Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations

   · 1976 · cited 68,291x

3. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

   · 2012 · cited 66,856x

4. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,510x

5. Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.

   · 1988 · cited 31,716x

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Quotes

• “I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again.”
• “"There was a man sitting or kneeling on Sampson's window-sill, and looking in, and I thought he was beckoning…He looked as if he was wet all over: and," he said, looking round and whispering as if he hardly liked to hear himself, "I'm not at all sure that he was alive."”
• “A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!"”
• “Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.”

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