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Arthur Gray

1852–1940

Best remembered for quietly unsettling ghost stories, this Cambridge scholar wrote eerie tales under the pen name "Ingulphus". His fiction sits alongside a long career as a teacher, historian, and Master of Jesus College, Cambridge.

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Tedious brief tales of Granta and Gramarye

Tedious brief tales of Granta and Gramarye

by Arthur Gray

About the author

Born in 1852, Arthur Gray was an English academic and writer who spent much of his life at Jesus College, Cambridge. He studied there, later served in several college roles, and became Master of Jesus College in 1912, holding the post until his death in 1940.

As a writer, he is chiefly remembered for Gothic and supernatural short stories, especially the collection Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye from 1919, published under the pseudonym "Ingulphus." Alongside those strange and atmospheric tales, he also wrote books on Cambridge, local history, and Shakespeare.

That mix of scholarship and storytelling gives his work its special flavor: learned, precise, and then suddenly uncanny. For listeners who enjoy classic ghost stories with an old university-world mood, Gray offers a distinctive voice from the early twentieth century.