Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
M. R. James
Born: August 1, 1862
Died: June 12, 1936 (aged 73)
Bio: Montague Rhodes James who used the publication name M. R. James was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge, and of Eton College.
Known for:
- Collected Ghost Stories (1931)
- Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904)
- Casting the Runes
- A Thin Ghost and Others (1919)
- The Haunted Doll's House