![]() ![]() ![]() His sexuality, described by Jones as "simultaneously unknowable and all-persuasive", found outlet in "ragging and other. He opposed the abolition of compulsory Greek from the Cambridge curriculum and obstructed degrees for women. "No thinking, gentlemen, please," James admonished his students. This pillar of the educational establishment held an appropriately stony view of intellectual speculation. Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories (The Complete Ghost Stories of M. ![]() Yet, as Darryl Jones shows in his introduction to this immaculately edited edition, James was far odder than his CV suggests. Benson (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural) E F Benson. ![]() You would not expect a man who was Provost of King's College, Cambridge, Provost of Eton and a member of the Order of Merit to have written the deeply creepy "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" or "Casting of the Runes", later adapted as Night of the Demon, a 1957 horror flick. Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) may seem an unlikely figure to be the master of the English ghost yarn. ![]()
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