Have you read Kipling's short story "Dayspring Mishandled"? As a miniature aficionado it should interest you!
Another writer (and approximate contemporary of Kipling), M.R. James, who many consider the father of the 20th Century ghost story, served as the Provost of King's College, Cambridge, but had been originally trained as an antiquarian and medievalist. A lot of his stories either allude to, or are centered around medieval texts, totems, practices, etc. I don't know if you remember "Friday the 13th - The Series," which aired back in the late 80's early 90's and had little if anything to do with the movies...a lot of their episodes seem to have been patterned after James' stories.