Review of “There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard” (1924)
M. R. James (writer).
Read in 2017.
The framing device, referring obliquely to Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale (1623), is a good one, though it reads like an assignment from a creative writing class. The story itself is full of conscious clichés.
References here: “An Evening’s Entertainment” (1925).