Clark Ashton Smith on M. R. James

“The peculiar genius of M. R. James, and his greatest power, lies in the convincing evocation of weird, malignant and preternatural phenomena such as I have instanced. It is safe to say that few writers, dead or living, have equaled him in this formidable necromancy and perhaps no one has excelled him.”

(Clark Ashton Smith – The Weird Works of M. R. James, 1934)