Works by
M. R. James
(Aka Montague Rhodes James)
(Writer)
[August 1, 1862 – June 12, 1936]

Children

• Forty-Two Stories by Hans Christian Andersen (1930), M. R. James, translator

• The Five Jars (1920)

Fiction

Ghost Stories

• Complete Ghost Stories (2007)

• The Haunted Dolls' House and Other Ghost Stories (2006) S. T. Joshi, ed.
  The second volume of the only annotated edition of M. R. James’s complete writings currently available, this book brings together tales from James’s final two volumes, A Thin Ghost and Others and A Warning to the Curious. I n these stories, James continues his transformation of the ghost story from its nineteenth-century heritage.

• Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories (2005), S. T. Joshi, ed.
  The only annotated edition of M. R. James’s writings currently available, Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories contains the entire first two volumes of James’s ghost stories, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. These volumes are both the culmination of the nineteenth-century ghost story tradition and the inspiration for much of the best twentieth-century work in this genre. Included in this collection are such landmark tales as "Count Magnus," set in the wilds of Sweden; "Number 13," a distinctive tale about a haunted hotel room; "Casting the Runes," a richly complex tale of sorcery that served as the basis for the classic horror film Curse of the Demon; and "Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad," one of the most frightening tales in literature. The appendix includes several rare texts, including "A Night in King’s College Chapel," James’s first known ghost story.

• A Pleasing Terror: The Complete Supernatural Writings (2001), Barbara Roden and Christopher Roden, eds.

• Collected Ghost Stories (1999)

• M. R James: The Fenstanton Witch and Others (1999)

• Two Ghost Stories: A Centenary (1993)

• The Ghost Stories of M. R. James (1986), selected by Michael Cox

• Best Ghost Stories of M. R. James (1946)

• The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James (1931)

• Wailing Well (1928)

• A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925)

• A Thin Ghost and Others (1919)

• Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories (1911, 2006)

• Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904)

Non-fiction

• The Gospel According to Peter and The Revelation of Peter (2009)
  Two lectures on the newly recovered.

• Short Works of Montague Rhodes James (2008)

• Old Testament Legends: Being Stories Out of Some of the Less Known Apocryphal Books of the Old Testament (2005)

• Gospel According to Peter and The Revelation of Peter (2003) by J. Armitage Robinson and Montague Rhodes James

• The Apocalypse in Art (1931)

• The Apocryphal New Testament (1924)

• The Lost Apocrypha of the Old Testament (1920)

• Henry the Sixth: A Reprint of John Blacman's Memoir (1919)

• The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts (1919)
  "The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts is the title of this book. To have called it the survival and transmission of ancient literature would have been pretentious, but not wholly untruthful. Manuscripts, we all know, are the chief means by which the records and imaginings of twenty centuries have been preserved. It is my purpose to tell where manuscripts were made, and how and in what centres they have been collected, and, incidentally, to suggest some helps for tracing out their history. Naturally the few pages into which the story has to be packed will not give room for any one episode to be treated exhaustively. Enough if I succeed in rousing curiosity and setting some student to work in a field in which an immense amount still remains to be discovered."

• The Biblical Antiquities of Philo (1917)
  This is a Bible history, reaching, in its present imperfect form, from Adam to the death of Saul, to which the name of the great Jewish philosopher of the first century, Philo, has been attached to it. Contents: General; History of the Book; Authorities for the Text; Title and Attribution to Philo; Original Language; Date; Form; Purpose and Teaching; Unity. Contents; Relation to Other Literature; Extent of the Complete Book: the Lost Conclusion Discussed; Conclusion; and Synopsis.

• Apocrypha Anecdota (1895, 2009)

Catalogues of Manuscripts (List may be incomplete)

• A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Colloge Library (2009)

• A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts in the Library of Clare College (2009)

• A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College (2009)

• Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Lambeth Palace (1932)

• A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Sidney Sussex College (2009)

•  A Descriptive Catalogue of the Library of Samuel Pepys (1923, 2009)

• A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of St John's College (1913, 2009)

• A Descriptive Catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum (1913, 2009)

• A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College (1912, 2009)

• A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Gonville and Caius College (1907, 2009)

• A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Pembroke College (1905, 2009)

• The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Emmanuel College (1904, 2009)

• The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College (1904, 2009)

• A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Peterhouse (1899, 2009)

• A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Jesus College (1895, 2009)

Travel

• Suffolk and Norfolk (1930)

• Abbeys & Monastic Life and Buildings (1926)

Other

• Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories (1996), Rex Collings, ed.
  Includes works by Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Nesbit, Edmund Lenthal Swifte, Elizabeth Gaske, Howard Pease, James Hogg, Montague Rhodes James, Oscar Wilde, Perceval Landon, R.S. Hawker, Richard Barham, Saki (H.H. Munro), and Sir Walter Scott

• The Pocket Book of Ghost Stories (1947), Philip Van Doren, ed.
  Aka The Midnight Reader; includes works by Alexander Woollcott. Edith Wharton, Hugh W. Stern , Oliver Onions, Montague Rhodes James, and others.

See also:

• Biography - Montague James (Rhodes) (2007)
  An article from: Contemporary Authors by Gale Reference Team (Digital - HTML)

• The Haunted Dolls' House and Other Ghost Stories (2006) by S.T. Joshi

• Introductions to Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories (2005) by S.T. Joshi

• M. R. James, A Pleasing Terror: The Complete Supernatural Writings (2001), Barbara Roden and Christopher Roden, eds.

• East Anglia—a Literary Pilgrimage (1996) by Peter Tolhurst

• Seven Masters of Supernatural Fiction (1991) by Edward Wagenknecht

• M. R. James: An Informal Portrait (1983) by Michael Cox

• Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story from Le Fanu to Blackwood (1980) by Jack Sullivan

• Montague Rhodes James (1980) by Richard William Pfaff

• M. R. James - Book of the Supernatural (1979) by Peter Haining

• The Checklist of Fantastic Literature (1948) by E. F. Bleiler

• A Memoir of Montague Rhodes James (1939) by S.G. Lubbock