![]() ![]() The Ring borrows heavily from Casting the Runes and The Treasure of Abbot Thomas. ![]() Shrieker) in 1998, directed by Victoria Sloan which borrowed heavily on both Casting the Runes, and H R Wakefields’ He Cometh and He Passeth By, which is an imitation of James’s story.) (There was a badly made version called Shriek (US. Night of the Demon remains the only cinematic outing for any of his tales. As with all his work, MR James strikes at your imagination by just giving you the bare essentials and leaves your imagination to fill in the gory details.įor example, both The Ring (2002) and Drag Me To Hell (2009), borrow heavily from his works – especially Drag Me To Hell, which is an unacknowledged remake of 1957’s classic Night of the Demon whose main premise is James’s 1911 short story Casting the Runes. There is one author, whose influence is as strongly felt in both current literature as well as film despite few people knowing his work and that author is Montague Rhodes James. ![]() ![]() Isaac Asimov single handily redefined the Science Fiction genre with his three laws of robotics. For example, J R R Tolkien unwittingly created, almost single handily the fantasy genre and his style has been widely copied. ![]()
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