Oh, Whistle, and Ill Come to You, My Lad Dodo Press Paperback 1409914488 9781409914488 M. R. James

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• Author: M. R. James
• ISBN10: 1409914488
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Montague Rhodes James 1862-1936 , who published under the byline M. R. James, was a noted medieval scholar and provost of Kings College, Cambridge 1905-1918 and of Eton College 1918- 1936 , best remembered today for his ghost stories in the classic Victorian Yuletide vein. As a medieval scholar his output was phenomenal and remains highly respected in scholarly circles. His discovery of a manuscript fragment led to excavations in the ruins of the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, West Suffolk, in 1902, in which the graves of several twelfth-century abbots described by Jocelyn de Brakelond a contemporary chronicler were rediscovered, having been lost since the Dissolution. His ghost stories were published in a series of collections: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary 1904 , More Ghost Stories 1911 , A Thin Ghost and Others 1919 and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories 1925 . Other works include: Old Testament Legends 1913 , Abbeys 1925 , and Collected Ghost Stories 1931 .