Night Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson

E F Benson

Wordsworth Editions, Limited, Oct 1, 2012 - Fiction - 720 pages

‘His body was pressed against the wall at the head of the bed, and the face was a mask of agonised horror and fruitless entreaty. But the eyes were already glazed in death, and before Francis could reach the bed the body had toppled over and lay inert and lifeless. Even as he looked, he heard a limping step go down the passage outside.’

E. F. Benson was a master of the ghost story and now all his rich, imaginative, spine-tingling and beautifully written tales are presented together in this bumper collection. The range and variety of these spooky narratives is far broader and more adventurous than those of any other writer of supernatural fiction. Within the covers of this volume you will encounter revengeful spectres, vampires, homicidal spirits, monstrous spectral worms and slugs and other entities of nameless dread. This is a classic collection that cannot fail to charm and chill.

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About the author

E. F. Benson (1867-1940) was a prolific novelist, dramatist, short story writer, and biographer. He wrote biographies of Sir Francis Drake, Alcibiades, Ferdinand Magellan, Queen Victoria, and Charlotte Bronte. The son of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and a bit eccentric, he studied archaeology at Kings College, Cambridge, and served as Mayor of Rye near the end of his life.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Night Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson; Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural Series
• Author: E F Benson
• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, Limited, 2012
• ISBN: 1840226854, 9781840226850
• Length: 720 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Ghost; Fiction / Horror