Montague Rhodes James authored some of the most highly regarded ghost stories of all
time—classics such as “Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad” that have been adapted …

An essay is presented on how Montague Rhodes James represented the haunted
experience in his ghost stories during the medieval period. Topics discussed include an …

Early in his literary career Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) made his reputation as a poet of
childhood, publishing the classic collection Songs of Childhood (1902) with the patronage of …

The scholarly reception history of the Old English riddles and adjacent “enigmatic poems” of
the Exeter Book reveals a long process of creating intelligibility and order out of a …

Abstract Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), legendary medievalist and author of some
of the most highly-regarded ghost stories of all time, has received considerable praise and …

This chapter examines how the ghost stories of MR James engage with fin de siècle
concerns about masculinity. Focusing on the use of golf in these tales, it demonstrates how …

Literary Depictions of Dangerous Reading explores how selected American and European
literary texts, from the classic to the contemporary, represent reading as a dangerous …

The 'ideal'serial killer for TV or film is meticulous, ordered, terribly controlled (in their out-of-
control violent sort of way). And they make things. Consider Buffalo Bill in Silence of the …

Luke Seaber proposes an alternative to Umberto Eco's distinction between open and closed
fabulae, one in which 'the end result is imposed by the fabula but the path taken to read it is …

Haunted Matters interrogates objects, bodies, and epistemology in a selection of Victorian
women's ghost stories, arguing that these things provided a means through which the …