蒙塔格·罗德斯·詹姆斯 OM FBA(英語:Montague Rhodes James,1862年8月1日—1936年6月12日)是一位英国作家、中世纪学者,剑桥大学国王学院(1905-1918)和伊顿学院(1918-1936)院长,也是剑桥大学的校长(1913-15)。
詹姆斯作为中世纪学者的工作受到高度重视,[1]但最令人难忘的是他的鬼故事,有些人认为他的作品是该类型的最佳。他为新世纪重新定义了鬼故事,放弃了许多前辈的哥特式陈词滥调,使用了更现实的当代背景。然而,他的主人公和情节往往反映了他自己的尚古兴趣,包含古文書、歴史遺物、史跡等元素。[2]因此,他被称为 "尚古鬼故事"的鼻祖。[3]
- Bleiler, E. F. The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Shasta Publishers, 1948.
- Bloom, Clive. "M. R. James and His Fiction." in Clive Bloom, ed., Creepers: British Horror and Fantasy in the Twentieth Century. London and Boulder CO: Pluto Press, 1993, pp. 64–71.
- Cox, Michael. M. R. James: An Informal Portrait. Oxford University Press, 1983. ISBN 0-19-211765-3.
- Haining, Peter. M. R. James: Book of the Supernatural. W. Foulsham, 1979. ISBN 0-572-01048-6
- James, M. R. A Pleasing Terror: The Complete Supernatural Writings, ed. Christopher Roden and Barbara Roden. Ash-Tree Press, 2001. ISBN 1-55310-024-7.
- Joshi, S. T. Introductions to Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories. Penguin Classics, 2005. ISBN 0-14-303939-3 and The Haunted Dolls' House and Other Ghost Stories. Penguin Classics, 2006. ISBN 0-14-303992-X.
- Lubbock, S. G. A Memoir of Montague Rhodes James ... with a list of his writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1939.
- Murphy, Patrick J. Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2017. ISBN 9780271077710.
- Pfaff, Richard William. Montague Rhodes James
. London: Scolar Press. 1980. ISBN 0859675548. (concentrates on his scholarly work)
- Sullivan, Jack. Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story from Le Fanu to Blackwood. Ohio University Press, 1980. ISBN 0-8214-0374-5.
- Tolhurst, Peter. East Anglia—a Literary Pilgrimage. Black Dog Books, Bungay, 1996. ISBN 0-9528839-0-2. (pp. 99–101).
- Wagenknecht, Edward. Seven Masters of Supernatural Fiction. Greenwood Press, 1991. ISBN 0-313-27960-8.
- Weighell, Ron. Dark Devotions: M. R. James and the Magical Tradition (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), Ghosts and Scholars 6 (1984):20–30
"After W.R. James." (1970) The Book Collector 19 no 1 spring: 7-20
創元推理文庫『M.R.ジェイムズ傑作集』(1978年初版).
Briggs, Julia (1986). "James, M(ontague) R(hodes)". In Sullivan, Jack, ed., The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural. New York: Viking Press. ISBN 0-670-80902-0