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Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer. He achieved the big success with his first novel, the fashionably controversial Dodo, and also with its sequels, but the greatest success came relatively late in his career with The Mapp and Lucia series. Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, oblique, and at times humorous or satirical ghost stories.
Table of contents:
The Male Impersonator
Desirable Residences
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
The Blackmailer of Park Lane
The Dance on the Beefsteak
The Oriolist
In the Dark
The False Step
"Puss-cat"
There Arose a King
The Tragedy of Oliver Bowman
Philip's Safety Razor
The Case of Frank Hampden
Mrs. Andrews's Control
The Ape
"Through"
"And the Dead Spake——"
The Outcast
The Horror-Horn
Machaon
Negotium Perambulans
At the Farmhouse
Inscrutable Dacrees
The Gardener
Mr. Tilly's Seance
Mrs. Amworth
In the Tube
Roderick's Story
Reconciliation
The Face
Spinach
Bagnell Terrace
A Tale of an Empty House
Naboth's Vineyard
Expiation
Home Sweet Home
"And no Birds Sings"
The Corner House
Corstophine
The Temple
The Step
The Bed by the Window
James Lamp
The Dance
The Hanging of Alfred Wadham
Pirates
The Wishing-Well
The Bath-Chair
Monkeys
Christopher Comes Back
The Sanctuary
Thursday Evenings
The Psychical Mallards
The Death Warrant
The China Bowl