Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) is one of the originators and most influential writers of supernatural fiction.
He lives with his wife in Seattle, Washington..
Mencken, and is compiling a three-Volume Encyclopedia of Supernatural Literature .
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He has also edited works by Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, and H.
Lovecraft: A Life (1996), and The Modern Weird Tale (2001).
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Among his critical and biographical studies are The Weird Tale (1990), Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination (1995), H.
Lovecraft\'s The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (1999), and The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (2001), as well as Algernon Blackwood\'s Ancient Sorceries and Other Strange Stories (2002).
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He has edited Penguin Classics editions of H.
Joshi is a freelance writer and editor.
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Among his many honors was the Order of Merit, bestowed upon him by King George V in 1930.
Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) is one of the originators and most influential writers of supernatural fiction