蒙塔格·罗德斯·詹姆斯 OM FBA（，）是一位英国作家、中世纪学者，剑桥大学国王学院（1905-1918）和伊顿学院（1918-1936）院长，也是剑桥大学的校长（1913-15）。
詹姆斯作为中世纪学者的工作受到高度重视，但最令人难忘的是他的鬼故事，有些人认为他的作品是该类型的最佳。他为新世纪重新定义了鬼故事，放弃了许多前辈的哥特式陈词滥调，使用了更现实的当代背景。然而，他的主人公和情节往往反映了他自己的尚古兴趣，包含古文書、歴史遺物、史跡等元素。因此，他被称为 "尚古鬼故事"的鼻祖。
延伸阅读
Bleiler, E. F. The Checklist of Fantastic Literature*. Shasta Publishers, 1948.
Bloom, Clive. "M. R. James and His Fiction." in Clive Bloom, ed., Creepers: British Horror and Fantasy in the Twentieth Century.* London and Boulder CO: Pluto Press, 1993, pp. 64–71.
Cox, Michael. M. R. James: An Informal Portrait*. Oxford University Press, 1983. .
Haining, Peter. M. R. James: Book of the Supernatural*. W. Foulsham, 1979.
James, M. R. A Pleasing Terror: The Complete Supernatural Writings*, ed. Christopher Roden and Barbara Roden. Ash-Tree Press, 2001. .
Joshi, S. T. Introductions to Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories. Penguin Classics, 2005. and The Haunted Dolls' House and Other Ghost Stories*. Penguin Classics, 2006. .
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Sullivan, Jack. Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story from Le Fanu to Blackwood*. Ohio University Press, 1980. .
Tolhurst, Peter. East Anglia—a Literary Pilgrimage*. Black Dog Books, Bungay, 1996. . (pp. 99–101).
Wagenknecht, Edward. Seven Masters of Supernatural Fiction*. Greenwood Press, 1991. .
- Weighell, Ron. [http://www.pardoes.info/roanddarroll/ArchiveDark.html Dark Devotions: M. R. James and the Magical Tradition] , Ghosts and Scholars 6 (1984):20–30
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- [http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/publics/mrjames/MRJBIBL.htm A complete chronological bibliography of all of his writings] hosted by the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences
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