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The Face and Collected Stories by E.F. Benson
The Face and Collected Stories by E.F. Benson
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Gothic and ghost writer, 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. horror stories
The Face"
Included in Benson's collection Spook Stories (1928), this story compares very interestingly to Charlotte Smith's "SONNET XLIV: Written in the churchyard at Middleton in Sussex," at least in terms of major imagery. But while Benson's story seems fairly traditional in its use of premonitory dreams (and nightmares), its "graveyard school" imagery, and its construction of suspense and surprise, it's curiously modernist in its refusal to supply the expected explanation.
"Mrs. Amworth"
A rather standard vampire tale in most regards, although Benson's take on vampires is out of the ordinary run of such things: possessed by evil spirits, vampires first live as ordinary humans — living off human blood, yes, but also eating normally and going about in sunlight and generally living ordinary human lives except for their blood-sucking — and then, when they die, they become Undead vampires, behaving pretty much as the stereotypical vampire, and need to be dispatched by a stake (or, in this case, pick-axe) through the heart. The image of Mrs. Amworth "floating" outside the upper-story bedroom window of her victim is similar to a moment in Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot.
Love horror stories? Love ghost stories? You will love these short stories.
Gothic and ghost writer, 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. horror stories
The Face"
Included in Benson's collection Spook Stories (1928), this story compares very interestingly to Charlotte Smith's "SONNET XLIV: Written in the churchyard at Middleton in Sussex," at least in terms of major imagery. But while Benson's story seems fairly traditional in its use of premonitory dreams (and nightmares), its "graveyard school" imagery, and its construction of suspense and surprise, it's curiously modernist in its refusal to supply the expected explanation.
"Mrs. Amworth"
A rather standard vampire tale in most regards, although Benson's take on vampires is out of the ordinary run of such things: possessed by evil spirits, vampires first live as ordinary humans — living off human blood, yes, but also eating normally and going about in sunlight and generally living ordinary human lives except for their blood-sucking — and then, when they die, they become Undead vampires, behaving pretty much as the stereotypical vampire, and need to be dispatched by a stake (or, in this case, pick-axe) through the heart. The image of Mrs. Amworth "floating" outside the upper-story bedroom window of her victim is similar to a moment in Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot.
Love horror stories? Love ghost stories? You will love these short stories.
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