user since
Mon Apr 24 2006 at 02:46:06 (18 years ago )
last seen
Mon Oct 16 2006 at 11:47:00 (17.5 years ago )
number of write-ups
29 - View M. R. James's writeups (feed)
level / experience
1 (Novice) / 256
specialties
Scaring the pants off you.
school/company
King's College, Cambridge
motto
"I seen it wive at me out of the winder. And I don't like it."
most recent writeup
The Five Jars - Chapter Eight
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Coming soon, to a node near you: the collected works of one Montague Rhodes James. As the servers are located in the US, we have to abide by US copyright rules, i.e., anything that was first published before 1923 is fair game. I'll try getting in contact with the appropriate person to seek permission to post the ones published after 1923 on here as well.

He's one of my favourite authors for a whole variety of reasons, so I have taken it upon myself to add them to the database.

Stories that he's written that are considered to be 'unfinished', but which are perfectly readable as they are, are:

I've just managed to track down a copy of his children's book, 'The Five Jars'! They're quite expensive, and very rare, but I finally managed to find one for under £30, which I think of as a bargin. Anyway, originally published in 1922, so give me time to OCR it type it all out by hand, and it'll be yours to enjoy as well.