Ralph Adams Cram

Ralph Adams Cram (1863–1942) was the leading Gothic-Revival architect in America, designer of churches, West Point and much of St. John the Divine, and an MIT professor. He was also, early on, a writer of weird fiction: his collection Black Spirits and White (1895), containing ‘The Dead Valley’, is regarded as a genuine classic of the supernatural tale. A rare union of monumental architecture and the literary uncanny.