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).
