In addition to writing his own stories, James championed the works of Sheridan Le Fanu, whom he viewed as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories",James, M. R., Prologue to J. S. Le Fanu, Madame Crowl's Ghost (1923), p. vii. Quoted in "Introduction", Cox, Michael, and Gilbert, R. A., eds. (2003), The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories, p.xvii. Oxford University Press. editing and supplying introductions to Madame Crowl's Ghost (1923) and Uncle Silas (1926).
In addition to writing his own stories, James championed the works of Sheridan Le Fanu, whom he viewed as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories",James, M. R., Prologue to J. S. Le Fanu, Madame Crowl's Ghost (1923), p. vii. Quoted in "Introduction", Cox, Michael, and Gilbert, R. A, eds. (2003), The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories, p.xvii. Oxford University Press. editing and supp.lying introductions to Madame Crowl's Ghost (1923) and Uncle Silas (1926).