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00:00:00 Presentation
00:01:12 Count Magnus
00:38:46 Credits, thanks and additional listening
Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was a medievalist and scholar, and is probably the best-known and most famous English ghost story writer of the 20th century, although he actually began composing tales supernaturals in the late Victorian era, beginning with "Canon Alberic". Scrap Book' (1893). He was born in Kent, but spent most of his childhood in Suffolk, a county which features prominently in several of his stories, including "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, Boy". Many of James's protagonists also reflect his own antiquarian interests, with academics and historians regularly present. James published four volumes of ghost stories during his life: "Ghost Stories from an Antiquary" (1904), "More Ghost Stories from an Antiquist" (1911), "A Thin and Others” (1919) and “A Warning to Curious Stories and Others” (1925).
During a long academic career which encompassed several appointments at King's College, Cambridge and Eton College, Mr. R. James developed a tradition of reading his ghost stories aloud to a group of friends, notably on the eve Christmas, and the majority of his published stories were heard for the first time in this context. “Count Magnus” was apparently composed and read between 1900 and 1902; it was first published in 1904 as part of James's first anthology, "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary."
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