Montague Rhodes James (Goodnestone rectory, Kent, 1862-Eton, 1936) was head of the school of Eton and King's College dean at the University of Cambridge. Throughout his life he became interested in archeology, paleography, philology and antiques. Devoted to ghost story just as a hobby outside of his magnum academic work, his best known works in the genre are Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911), A Thin Ghost (1919) and A Warning to the Curious (1925). Reivindicador great Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu, he was in turn was claimed by H. P. Lovecraft (Siruela has included one of his stories in the anthology The horror as Lovecraft).