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E.G. Swain

Born

in Stockport, Cheshire, The United Kingdom

February 19, 1861

Died

January 29, 1938

Genre

Horror

Influences

M.R. James, Edward & Arthur Benson, Richard H. Malden.

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AKA: Edmund Gill Swain (1861-1938) was an English cleric and author. As a chaplain of King's College, Cambridge, he was a colleague and contemporary of the scholar and author M.R. James, and a regular member of the select group to whom James delivered his famous annual Christmas Eve reading of a ghost story composed specially for the occasion. Swain collaborated with James on topical skits for amateur performance in Cambridge, but he is best known for the collection of ghost stories he published in 1912, entitled The Stoneground Ghost Tales. He also wrote a history of Peterborough Cathedral. ...more

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	The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories by Michael Cox (Editor), R.A. Gilbert (Editor), F. Marion Crawford (Contributor) 4.13 avg rating — 900 ratings — published 1918 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories by Al Sarrantonio (Editor), Charles Dickens, Steve Rasnic Tem (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 655 ratings — published 1993 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Great Ghost Stories by John Grafton (Editor), Ambrose Bierce (Author, "The Moonlit Road"), Amelia B. Edwards (Author, "The Phantom Coach") 3.75 avg rating — 409 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stoneground Ghost Tales 3.60 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 1912 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bone to His Bone 3.14 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1912	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancient Haunts: The Stoneground Ghost Tales / Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye by E.G. Swain, Arthur Gray 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of E. G. Swain & Ralph Adams Cram by E.G. Swain, Ralph Adams Cram 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man With The Roller 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bone to His Bone: The Stoneground Ghost Tales of E.G. Swain 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stoneground Ghost Tales: Nine Supernatural Short Stories by E.G. Swain, Airleas Publishing (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by E.G. Swain (?)

“Those who turn the instruments of science upon Nature will always be in danger of seeing more than they looked for. There is such a disaster as that of knowing too much, and at some time or another it may overtake each of us.”
― E.G. Swain, The Stoneground Ghost Tales

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“He would browse amongst the books like an ox in a pleasant pasture”
― E.G. Swain, Great Ghost Stories

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