JR M.R.James - Rats Montague Rhodes James was an English medievalist scholar and author who served as provost of King's College, Cambridge, and of Eton College as well as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. James's scholarly work is still highly regarded, but he is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are considered by many critics and authors as the finest in the English language and widely influential on modern horror. "Rats" is a short ghost story first published in At Random magazine (March 23, 1929). It was later included in the anthology The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James (1931).

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M. R. James: The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral.
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This week in the Reggie Oliver Project, we read 'Evil Eye'
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I discuss found footage & voyeurism in horror as well as the intersection of Oliver’s work with Clive Barker. #Weird #WeirdFiction #ReggieOliver #TheReggieOliverProject #englishghoststories #englishweird #horror

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This week in the Reggie Oliver Project I read 'In Arcadia': substack.com/home/post/p-...
We consider hubris, arete, and ask whether you would choose a life in the arts, or eternity in Tartarus.

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Classic Ghosts Stories with Robert Powell (1986) - YouTube Five classic ghost stories by M.R. James, read by actor Robert Powell in the festive fireside tradition for which they were first written.

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