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    Casting the Runes
    Casting the Runes
    Casting the Runes
    Audiobook52 minutes

    Casting the Runes

    Written by M.R. James

    Narrated by Roy Macready

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    About this audiobook

    M.R. James (1862-1936) was provost of King's College, Cambridge and Eton College. He was a highly regarded scholar and academic in his time but today is remembered for his ghost stories which are considered among the finest in the genre.

    Here is one of them: Casting the Runes.

    Public Domain (P)2016 Spiders' House Audio/Roy Macready

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBig Happy Family
    Release dateAug 15, 2016
    ISBN9781509461356
    Casting the Runes
    Author

    M.R. James

    Montague Rhodes James was born in 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage, Kent, where his father was a curate, but the family moved soon afterwards to Great Livermere in Suffolk. James attended Eton College and later King's College Cambridge where he won many awards and scholarships. From 1894 to 1908 he was Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and from 1905 to 1918 was Provost of King's College. In 1913, he became Vice-Chancellor of the University for two years. In 1918 he was installed as Provost of Eton. A distinguished medievalist and scholar of international status, James published many works on biblical and historical antiquarian subjects. He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1930. His ghost story writing began almost as a divertissement from his academic work and as a form of entertainment for his colleagues. His first collection, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary was published in 1904. He never married and died in 1936.

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