E. F Benson
1) Queen Lucia
2) Miss Mapp
Published in 1912, The Man Who Went Too Far is a short horror story by Edward Frederic Benson, 1867-1940. An unnamed narratator retells the story of a man who connects with nature by rejecting Christian orthodoxy and embracing neopaganism. His path is full of joy until he connects with a strange spirit he believes to be Pan, the ancient Greek god of the wild.
"The Confession of Charles Linkworth" is a short story by E. F. Benson, published in his 1912 collection titled The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories. Benson was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer. (Source: Wikipedia)
7) The Gardener
"The Gardener" is a short story by E. F. Benson, published in his 1924 collection titled Visible and Invisible. Benson was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer. (Source: Wikipedia)
8) Gavon’s Eve
"Gavon's Eve" is a short story by E. F. Benson, published in his 1912 collection titled The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories. Benson was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer. (Source: Wikipedia)
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"You have read these pages, and you know that in some points you seem to me to be very like Alice Yardly, but those are the points on which we agree to differ. I think Alice Yardly and you are often too silly for words. But you are much more essentially like Bertie Cochrane, and it is to you, in the character of him, that I dedicate this book. You, sick with a mortal disease, found healing in Christian Science, and in
...10) In the Tube
"In the Tube" is a short story by E. F. Benson, published in his 1924 collection titled Visible and Invisible, and Other Stories. Benson was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer. (Source: Wikipedia)
11) Mrs. Ames
E. F. Benson, best known for his irresistible Mapp and Lucia novels set in the fictional town of Tilling, England, was a prolific and beloved novelist. Though the Mapp and Lucia books remain popular to this day, this kindred book will be back in print for the first time since its initial publication.
The son of E. W. Benson, archbishop of Canterbury from 1883 to 1896, the young E. F. Benson was educated at Marlborough School and at King's
...12) Outside the Door
"Outside the Door" is a short story by E. F. Benson, published in his 1912 collection titled The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories. Benson was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer. (Source: Wikipedia)
Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer.
Benson's story David Blaize and the Blue Door (1918) is a children's fantasy influenced by the work of Lewis Carroll.[7] "Mr Tilly's Seance" is a witty and amusing story about a man flattened by a traction-engine who finds himself dead and conscious on the 'other
...15) Mrs. Amworth
"Mrs. Amworth" by E. F. Benson is a vampire tale first published as a magazine story in 1920 then included in the author's second book of short stories, Visible and Invisible (1923). The story was turned into a short horror film in 1978.
16) The Other Bed
Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer. This ghost story was originally published in The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories. (Source: Wikipedia)
And the Dead Spake / E. F. Benson
"And the Dead Spake By E. F. Benson Benson's first novel was Dodo (1893), which was an instant success, and followed it with a variety of satire and romantic and supernatural melodrama. He repeated the success of Dodo with the same cast of characters a generation later: Dodo the Second (1914), 'a unique chronicle of the pre-1914 Bright Young Things' and Dodo Wonders (1921), 'a first-hand
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