"There are some authors one wished one had never read in order to have the joy of reading them for the first time. For me, M. R. James is one of these."
— M. R. James

January 1, 1970

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Ruth Rendell, "Introduction" to A Warning to the Curious: The Ghost Stories of M. R. James, London, Hutchinson, 1987 (p.iv)