For the Dead Remember

A biography of the greatest writer of ghost stories, M. R. James, who was also the foremost scholar of medieval manuscripts and the occult of his day. This is also the portrait of an age and a generation in changing times, told through the life of one man and the institutions to which he belonged, Eton and King's College Cambridge.

A biography of the greatest writer of ghost stories, M. R. James, who was also the foremost scholar of medieval manuscripts and the occult of his day. This is also the portrait of an age and a generation in changing times, told through the life of one man and the institutions to which he belonged, Eton and King's College Cambridge.