Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story". However, James's protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests. James redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre. James, was an English author, medieval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936). Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), who used the publication name M.R.
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