“The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.”
The Stark Munro Letters (1895)
James Machin is Technical Editor of the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle. He has previously held teaching and research roles at Birkbeck, and spent several years as a Critical and Historical Studies lecturer and tutor at the Royal College of Art. He has also taught MA and BA Victorian Literature units at the University of Bedfordshire. His EUP edition of The Stark Munro Letters was published in 2024. He is the author of Weird Fiction in Britain 1880–1939, which was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. James was co-editor of Faunus, the Arthur Machen journal for over a decade and other recent work includes editing The Strange Stories of John Buchan for British Library Publishing (2025).
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