oh whistle and I'll come to you

Anglicans and Roman Catholics used the genre as a means for telling stories camouflaging Christian themes.

M.R. James was a conservative Anglican influenced by Shakespeare and contemporaries like Agatha Christie and A.C. Benson.

American education is so secularized that many of these short story writers are forgotten, and horror/fantasy jumble written by the likes of Rowling and Stephen King is assigned.

“Christie was a lifelong, ‘quietly devout’ member of the Church of England, attended church regularly, and kept her mother’s copy of The Imitation of Christ by her bedside. After her divorce, she stopped taking the sacrament of communion.” Wikipedia.

From the story...
QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT? Who is this who is coming?

The is is present continuous tense.