E. G. Swain

Edmund Gill Swain (19 February 1861 – 29 January 1938) was an English cleric and author. As a chaplain of King's College, Cambridge, he was a colleague and contemporary of the scholar and author M. R. James, and a regular member of the select group to whom James delivered his famous annual Christmas Eve reading of a ghost story composed specially for the occasion. but he is known best for the collection of ghost stories he published in 1912, entitled ''The Stoneground Ghost Tales''. He also wrote a history of Peterborough Cathedral. Provided by Wikipedia