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Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. He started his novel writing career in 1893 with the fashionably controversial Dodo, 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 sequels to this novel, but the greatest success came relatively late in his career with The Mapp and Lucia series consisting of six novels and two short stories. The novels feature humorous incidents in the lives of (mainly) upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s, vying for social prestige and one-upmanship in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery. Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, oblique, and at times humorous or satirical ghost stories.
Table of Contents:
The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories
The Room in the Tower
Gavon's Eve
The Dust-Cloud
The Confession of Charles Linkworth
At Abdul Ali's Grave
The Shootings of Achnaleish
How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery
Caterpillars
The Cat
The Bus-Conductor
The Man Who Went Too Far
Between the Lights
Outside the Door
The Other Bed
The Thing in the Hall
The House with the Brick-Kiln
The Terror by Night
The Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories
BLACKMAILING STORIES
The Countess of Lowndes Square
The Blackmailer of Park Lane
GENERAL STORIES
The Dance on the Beefsteak
The Oriolist
In the Dark
The False Step
CAT STORIES
"Puss-cat"
There Arose a King
CRANK STORIES
The Tragedy of Oliver Bowman
Philip's Safety Razor
SPOOK STORIES
The Case of Frank Hampden
Mrs. Andrews's Control
The Ape
"Through"