Author:Montague Rhodes James

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Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, quotes. A noted medieval scholar and Provost of King's College, Cambridge, he is best remembered today for his ghost stories.

Works

Stories

• 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)
  • 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 (1925)
  • The Haunted Dolls' House
  • The Uncommon Prayer-book
  • A Neighbour's Landmark
  • A View From a Hill
  • A Warning to the Curious
  • An Evenings Entertainment

Other Short Stories

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

Novellas

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

Non-fiction

• The Apocryphal New Testament — Copyrighted in the United States until 2020, and from this:
  • Acts of Paul
  • Acts of Pilate
  • Correspondence of Paul and Seneca
  • Epistle to the Laodiceans
  • Infancy Gospel of Thomas
  • Infancy Gospel of Thomas
  • Infancy Gospel of Thomas
  • Report of Pilate to the Emperor Claudius

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1936, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.