The Room in the Tower, E. F. Benson
The Room in the Tower, E. F. Benson
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The Room in the Tower

Author: E. F. Benson

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Unabridged: 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/30/2014

Synopsis

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, best known for his spine-tingling and beautifully written ghost stories. The Room in the Tower is the most famous of these. It describes a horrific recurrent dream of nameless dread, occurring over a period of 15 years, in which the dreamer arrives at a peculiar house inhabited by a sinister silent family, where he takes tea on the lawn and is then shown to the room in the tower where something dreadful, malicious, and evil lurks... though he does not know what. Until one day, he finds himself at the house of his dream, just as tea is being served on the lawn.

About E. F. Benson

Edward Frederic Benson (1867–1940) was born in Berkshire, England, and educated at Cambridge. He worked in Athens for the British School of Archaeology and later in Egypt for the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. Benson wrote fiction, reminiscences, and biographies, but is best remembered for his arch satirical novels and his urbane autobiographical studies of Edwardian and Georgian society.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

This first Benson collection of fourteen stories includes three classics of the genre: "Caterpillars" (one of the creepiest, most viscerally terrifying tales ever written), "The Room in the Tower" (featuring a frightening matronly vampire--a characteristic Benson menace--and a recurrent dream that c......more

Goodreads review by Peter

Absolutely great story about a recurring dream come true in the end. Here you have all ingredients of fine psychological horror. Well plotted, hair rising eerie situation and an interesting denouement at the end solving the riddle who the mysterious woman on the picture was. Why did the picture came......more

Goodreads review by Oscar

E.F. Benson fue uno de los maestros de la ghost story, género que cultivó junto a su buen amigo M.R. James, el Gran Maestro de este tipo de historias. Sin embargo es un autor muy poco conocido en nuestros días, del que apenas se ha publicado en España. La estupenda editorial Valdemar tiene en su cat......more

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