Arthur Gray

Born in York in 1852, he became a prominent figure at Jesus College, Cambridge, eventually serving as Master from 1912 until his death in 1940. Alongside his academic career, he wrote fiction and nonfiction, including work on Cambridge and its history.

He is especially remembered by readers of supernatural fiction for stories first published under the pseudonym Ingulphus and later gathered in Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye. Those tales use the atmosphere of Cambridge—its courts, libraries, and traditions—to create quiet, witty ghost stories with a distinctly scholarly flavor.

That combination of learned detail and understated eeriness has helped keep his work in print for modern fans of classic strange fiction. For listeners who enjoy old-world settings, subtle humor, and literary hauntings, his work offers a distinctive corner of the English ghost-story tradition.