Born on this day – M.R. James:

 

M.R. James

Writer

Medievalist scholar

August 1, 1862 – June 12, 1936

Credits:

Books:

100 Creepy Little Creature Stories (1994); 100 Fiendish Little Frightmares (1990); 65 Great Spine Chillers (1982); A Century of Children's Ghost Stories (1996); A Century of Ghost Stories (1936); A Century of Horror (1971); A Distant Cry (2002); A Little Night Reading (1974); A Neighbour's Landmark (1924); A Pleasing Terror (2001); A School Story (1911); A Second Century of Creepy Stories (1930); A Thin Ghost and Others (1919); A View from a Hill (1925); A Vignette (1936); A Warning to the Curious (1925); Abbeys (1925); After Dark in the Playing Fields (1931); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957); An Episode of Cathedral History (1919); An Evening's Entertainment (1925); Best Black Magic Stories (1960); Best Horror Stories (1957); Best Horror Stories 2 (1965); Between the Tracks (2017); Beyond Midnight (1976); Black Water (1983); Blood Thirst (1997); Casting the Runes (1987); Chamber of Horrors (1984); Christopher Lee's Archives of Evil (1977); Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors (1974); Classic Ghost Stories II (1990); Classic Horror Stories (2024); Classic Tales of Horror (1976); Classic Vampire Tales Volume One (2010); Classics of the Supernatural (1998); Collected Ghost Stories (2018); Complete Ghost Stories (2017); Count Magnus (1904); Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories (2005); Curious Warnings (2012); Dancing with the Dark (1997); Dark Company (1984); December Tales (2021); Dracula's Brood (1987); Dracula's Guest (2010); Dying of Fright (1976); Everyman's Book of Classic Horror Stories (1965); Evil Roots (2019); Fear (1975); Fear and Trembling (1946); Flotsam Fantasique (2013); Gaslight Tales of Terror (1976); Ghost Stories (1988 / 2018 / 2019); Ghost Stories: Stephen Fry's Definitive Collection (2023); Ghostly (2015); Ghosts (2018); Ghosts for Christmas (1988); Ghosts from the Library (2022); Ghosts of Christmas Past (2017); Ghosts That Haunt You (1980); Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary (1904); Great Ghost Stories (1918); H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror (1993); Handle with Care (1985); Hanging By a Thread (1970); Hauntings (1968); Haunts (2011); Holy Ghosts (2023); In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe (2015); Lost Hearts (1895); Martin's Close (1911); Medley Macabre (1966); Mind at Bay (1969); Mind in Chains (1970); Minor Hauntings (2021); More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911); Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance (1911); My Favorite Fantasy Story (1994); My Favorite Horror Story (2000); Number 13 (1904); Nursery Crimes (1993); Phantastic Book of Ghost Stories (2002); Quiver of Horror (1965); Realms of Darkness (1985); Sinister And Supernatural Stories (1978); Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979); Sleep No More (1964); Small Shadows Creep (1963); Sorceress in Stained Glass (1971); Specter! (1982); Spine Chillers (1961); Spirits of the Season (2018); Summoned from the Tomb (1973); Supernatural Horror Short Stories (2017); Supernatural Stories (1995); Tales from the Dead of Night (2013); Tales of the Dark 2 (1977); Tales of the Dark 3 (1988); Tales of the Supernatural (1962); Tales to Freeze the Blood (2006); The 16th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1980); The 4th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1967); The 7th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1972); The Best Ghost Stories of M R James (1944); The Book of Ghost Stories (1983); The Century's Best Horror Fiction Volume One (2004); The Collected Ghost Stories of M R James (1931); The Colour of Evil (1987); The Cthulhu Cycle (1996); The Damnations (2024); The Dark Descent (1997); The Dead of Winter (2023); The Diary of Mr Poynter (1919); The Edge of Never (1973); The Evil Image (1983); The Five Jars (1922); The Fourth Armada Ghost Book (1972); The Ghost Stories (1973); The Ghost Stories of M. R. James (2018); The Ghost's Companion (1975); The Giant Book of Classic Ghost Stories (1997); The Haunted Dolls' House (1925); The Haunted Library (2016); The Haunted Looking Glass (1959); The Horror Hall of Fame (1987); The House of the Nightmare (1967); The Malice of Inanimate Objects (1933); The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21 (2010); The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror (2021); The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories (1990); The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000); The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936); The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992); The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories (1995); The Mammoth Book of Zombies (1993); The Mezzotint (1904); The Midnight People (1968); The Mystery Book (1934); The Nightmare Reader Volume 2 (1973); The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (1998); The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996); The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984); The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984); The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories (1987); The Penguin Complete Ghost Stories of M R James (1931); The Residence at Whitminster (1919); The Rivals of Dracula (1977); The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral (1910); The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (1913); The Third Armada Ghost Book (1970); The Thrill of Horror (1975); The Tractate Middoth (1911); The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1904); The Treasury of the Fantastic (2000); The Vampire Archives (2009); The Weird (2011); The Zinzolin Book of Occult Fiction (2022); There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard (1931); Thirteen Ghost Stories (1935); Thirteen Uncanny Tales (1970); Thrillers (1994); Twisted Yuletide (2025); Two Doctors (1919); Victorian Ghost Stories (1991); Wailing Well (1928); Weird Woods (2020); When Churchyards Yawn (1982); Wizards and Warlocks (1961); Young Ghosts (1985); Zombies! (2013).

Movies and television:

A Ghost Story for Christmas (1971–1975 / 2005–2022); Camera Three (1959); Christmas Tales (1990); Cineficción Radio (2019); Classic Ghost Stories (1986); Count Magnus (2015); Doctors (2014); Ghost Stories for Christmas (2000); Great Ghost Tales (1961); Hello Humans (2022); ITV Playhouse (1979); Lights Out (1951); Lost Hearts (2007 / 2012); M R James: Ghost Stories for Christmas (2022); Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance (1976); Mystery and Imagination (1966–1968); Night of the Demon / aka Curse of the Demon (1957); Octoberpod AM (2024); Omnibus (1968); Play Me a Note (2015); Post Tenebras Lux (2017); Rats by M.R. James (2011); Scary Stories Around the Fire (2025); Shadows at the Door (2019–2020); Spine Chillers (1980); Tales of Ghosts and Demons (2023); The Church (1989); The Conception of Terror (2019); The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (2016); Vampirismus (1980); Wailing Well (2019); Whistle and I'll Come to You! (1957).