The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature

Michael Cox works as Senior Commissioning Editor on reference books at Oxford University Press. He is the author of the standard biography of the scholar M. R. James (1983) and has edited a selection of James's ghost stories for the Oxford World's Classics series. An authority on English supernatural fiction and Victorian detective fiction, he has co-edited (with R. A. Gilbert) The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories as well as editing or co-editing a number of other Oxford fiction anthologies. His other publications are listed in 'books by the same author'.