![]() ![]() ![]() “A literary weird fictionist of the very first rank.” James is one of horror fiction’s few class acts.” “The most frightening, learned and humorous ghost stories.” “James is perhaps unsurpassed in originality by any living writer.” James remain as entertaining, and as implausibly plausible, as ever.” “The name of Montague Rhodes James at once signifies the very best in ghost fiction.” “I was agreeably sensible of their eeriness … There is much invention shown in their construction.” “Stylish, beautifully constructed, mountingly sinister and ultimately frightening tales.” He raised the art of writing tales of terror to a new high level.” James did more for the ghost story than any other writer. “His own subtle and oblique way of constructing narrative has been my dictum: less is more.” Basil Copper ![]() James is the most influential British writer of supernatural fiction.” “A writer of great supernatural imagination, a master of style and purity … I believe that it is unlikely his ghost stories will ever be surpassed.” James the title of genius, an accolade which should not be lightly bestowed.” Nobody can do what he did as well as he could.” He may well have created the ghost story in its current form. “There are all sorts of writers of all sorts of nightmares, but M.R. ![]()
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