Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) is one of the originators and
most influential writers of supernatural fiction. Among his many
honors was the Order of Merit, bestowed upon him by King George V
in 1930.
S. T. Joshi is a freelance writer and editor. He has edited Penguin
Classics editions of H. P. 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). Among his critical and
biographical studies are The Weird Tale (1990), Lord Dunsany-
Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination (1995), H. P. Lovecraft- A
Life (1996), and The Modern Weird Tale (2001). He has also edited
works by Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, and H. L. Mencken, and is
compiling a three-volume Encyclopedia of Supernatural Literature.
He lives with his wife in Seattle, Washington.
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